Police were on the scene at Dutch Village Shell station at the corner of Lehmberg Road and Highway 50 in Columbus Saturday night.
Police responded to a call of shots fired at around 10:30 p.m. Though the gas station is in the Columbus police jurisdiction, Lowndes County Sheriff Mike Arledge and deputies were on hand to assist.
Details were sketchy late Saturday night, and police declined to release information about the incident pending an investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
“We’re not going to investigate it ourselves,” Columbus Police Chief Selvain McQueen said. “We’re waiting on Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.”
Two people were transported to the hospital after the incident, according to witnesses at the scene; their identities were unknown at press time. The shooting apparently happened on the Lehmberg side of
the gas station, but workers at the store said they did not hear gunfire.
Though authorities would not confirm whether or not an officer was involved in the incident, typically MBI is called in to investigate when an officer fires his or her weapon in the line of duty.
Carmen K. Sisson is the former news editor at The Dispatch.
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