SUMMIT — A police officer was shot and killed Thursday by a person at a traffic checkpoint in a small town in southwestern Mississippi, and the suspected shooter was then killed during an exchange of gunfire with two other officers, the state Department of Public Safety said.
The officer killed is from Summit, where all of the shootings occurred. The two other officers were from nearby McComb, and their wounds were not considered life-threatening, DPS spokesperson Bailey Martin said.
The shootings happened near a grocery store, the Enterprise-Journal reported.
Summit is about 75 miles south of Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson, and McComb is about 4 miles south of Summit, near the Louisiana state line.
Summit has a population of about 1,460.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is examining the case, as it does with most shootings of or by law enforcement officers in the state.
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