The five Lowndes County sheriff”s deputies who were suspended following a deadly shootout Monday are back at work today.
Chief Deputy Greg Wright, along with deputies Eli Perrigin, Larry Swearingen and Neal Austin, had been on administrative leave with pay since Monday, when John Rogers Montgomery died at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle.
Montgomery, who had been off of his medication for paranoid schizophrenia since December 2010, fired on deputies who were searching for him near his trailer at 249 Askew Road. Deputies returned fire, hitting him at least twice in the side and hip.
The investigation, which is still ongoing, was turned over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
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