An alleged Mississippi home invader was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire after midnight last week.
The Tunica County Sheriff’s Office said it received a 911 call from a resident in the 1600 block of Beatline Road in Tunica just after 1 a.m. last Friday reporting an attempted home invasion. Tunica is in the northwest part of the state and is about 40 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee.
'This is our little town where we should feel safe.'
The caller said there was an exchange of gunfire, and two people were shot, officials said.
Arriving sheriff's deputies found a 46-year-old male who lives at the home who was suffering from a gunshot wound, officials said, adding that he was treated at the scene and flown to a Memphis hospital.
Deputies found a second male — identified as Nadarius Joiner, 30, of Tunica — who was wounded by gunfire. Officials said he was treated at the scene and died.
"Homeowners have a constitutional right to protect their homes once a person gains entrance," the sheriff's office said. "No arrests have been made."
Officials said those with information are urged to contact the Tunica County Sheriff’s Office at 662-363-1411; those who wish to remain anonymous can contact CrimeStoppers at 662-910-0400. Officials said any information leading to an arrest can pay up to $1,000.
Commenters on the Facebook post from the sheriff's office about the incident made their voices heard. Here are a few reactions:
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A beloved security guard in Mississippi is now dead after three teens allegedly shot him during an attempted robbery.
Early Monday morning, 60-year-old Roy Love was doing what he always did: providing armed security at M&M Food Mart, a gas station and convenience store in the capital city of Jackson. Two of Love's neighbors attested to his commitment to his job.
"He came to work every day," said Tony Williams.
"This man gets up every day and comes to work," added Jackie Kitchens.
'They were trying to steal the security guard’s gun, and they got it and killed him in the process — unbelievable.'
Around 1:30 a.m. that day, three teens — two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old — arrived at the store. Perhaps suspecting the kids were up to no good, Love approached them in the parking lot and asked them to leave.
Rather than obey, the three allegedly attempted to rob Love. During the scuffle, they reportedly managed to gain access to his gun and then used it to kill him.
According to Police Chief Joseph Wade, surveillance footage of the incident was difficult to watch. "They attacked him, took his weapon, and fired on him with [it]," he said at a press conference.
"This was very bold. They were trying to steal the security guard’s gun, and they got it and killed him in the process — unbelievable," Wade added. Love never drew his weapon, the chief stated.
Soon after the deadly shooting, Jackson officers received a tip to search the area near the intersection of Woody and Monticello Drive, which is located less than half a mile from M&M Food Mart. There, they apparently found the three teens, who were then arrested and booked into custody.
The teens have been charged with capital murder and ordered to be held without bail. Blaze News is not reporting their names.
"I can’t believe it, man," said Love's friend Tony Williams. "He was well known in the neighborhood, a neighborhood legend. ... A great guy. It’s mind-blowing."
"He will be missed."
Jackie Kitchens recalled that Love always kept an eye on the women in his neighborhood to make sure they were safe. "He sees us pull up out here. If it’s women, he’s going to come out here to make sure we’re in there safe and come back to our cars safe," she explained.
"For them to try and take his little gun from him, that’s just sad."
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A grandmother whose family was carjacked and shot at last week is worried that the gunmen who ran from the crime scene may return to her home in Jackson, Mississippi, to "retaliate."
"We have to get out of here. It's not safe. Especially not now, with all the news and stuff because their picture, it's getting out ... and I'm afraid they're going to retaliate," Heather Allen said, according to Fox News.
'I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof ...'
A doorbell camera caught the terrifying moment when the carjackers in broad daylight fired shots as they walked up to Allen and members of her family as they were saying their goodbyes in her driveway.
"I threw my hands up like, 'Hey, hey, hey,' and he just pulled me down," Allen recounted to WAPT-TV.
The station said Allen and one of her sons were outside the car parked in the driveway at the time of the crime — however, Allen's daughter, two grandchildren, and her oldest son were inside the car.
Video shows one of the suspects opening the driver's side door and pulling a victim in the driver's seat out of the car. That victim is Allen's daughter, WAPT said.
"They kept hollering, 'Give me the keys, give me the keys.' My daughter was like, 'My babies, my babies are in the car,'" Allen recalled to the station.
Allen also told WAPT, "He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face."
The station said Allen's son was able to get out of the car — and then she grabbed her grandchildren from the back seat. WAPT added that the whole time one of the suspects continued yelling for the keys.
As it turns out, though, the suspects were unable to figure out how to get the car to move, the station said.
With that, WAPT said Allen threw on the ground the keys to her own car, which was parked on the lawn. The station said the suspects then gave up on the car parked in the driveway and took off in Allen's car.
Allen added in her Thursday "Fox & Friends First" interview that "it dawned on me, I had my keys around my neck, so I took them off and threw them to [the carjackers] to get them out of my yard."
'It was very concerning to me because a threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone.'
"I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof. ... My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe. They are in Batesville right now," Allen noted to WAPT.
The family indicated that they've lived in the area for about three months — but now they want to move out of Jackson, the station reported.
"We can't stay here any more," Allen added to WAPT.
Jackson police found Allen's car about two blocks away from the crime scene — and only 40 minutes after the incident, the station said.
"The cop said that the car looks good, but it's in the impound lot," Allen explained to WAPT. "I can't get it until they investigate it for fingerprints."
Allen noted during her "Fox & Friends First" interview that she finally got her car back after going "back and forth" multiple times between impound car lots and the local crime lab.
"I had an opportunity to look at the video of Ms. Allen and her family being robbed and carjacked in their driveway," Police Chief Joseph Wade told WAPT. "It was extremely disturbing to me. It was very concerning to me because a threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone."
Wade added to the station that investigators have identified two persons of interest, but they are not in custody.
WAPT said those with information can call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.
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A doorbell camera caught the terrifying moment when carjackers in broad daylight fired shots as they walked up to family members saying their goodbyes in a driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, last week.
"I threw my hands up like, 'Hey, hey, hey,' and he just pulled me down," Heather Allen recounted to WAPT-TV regarding Friday's ordeal.
'He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face.'
The station said Allen and one of her sons were outside the car parked in the driveway at the time of the crime — however, Allen's daughter, two grandchildren, and her oldest son were inside the car.
Video shows one of the suspects opening the driver's side door and pulling a victim in the driver's seat out of the car. That victim is Allen's daughter, WAPT said.
"They kept hollering, 'Give me the keys, give me the keys.' My daughter was like, 'My babies, my babies are in the car,'" Allen recalled to the station.
Allen also told WAPT, "He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face."
The station said Allen's son was able to get out of the car — and then she grabbed her grandchildren from the backseat. WAPT added that the whole time one of the suspects continued yelling for the keys.
As it turns out, though, the suspects were unable to figure out how to get the car to move, the station said.
'I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof — he's even scared. My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe.'
With that, WAPT said Allen threw on the ground the keys to her own car, which was parked on the lawn. The station said the suspects then gave up on the car parked in the driveway and took off in Allen's car.
"I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof — he's even scared. My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe. They are in Batesville right now," Allen noted to WAPT.
The family indicated that they've lived in the area for about three months — but now they want to move out of Jackson, the station reported.
"We can't stay here anymore," Allen added to WAPT.
Jackson police found Allen's car about two blocks away from the crime scene — and only 40 minutes after the incident, the station said.
"The cop said that the car looks good, but it's in the impound lot," Allen explained to WAPT. "I can't get it until they investigate it for fingerprints."
Police Chief Joseph Wade told the station that his department is working to get Allen's vehicle back to her as soon as possible.
"I had an opportunity to look at the video of Ms. Allen and her family being robbed and carjacked in their driveway," Wade told WAPT. "It was extremely disturbing to me. It was very concerning to me because a threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone."
Wade added to the station that investigators have identified two persons of interest, but they are not in custody.
WAPT said those with information can call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.
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Two teenage boys are in custody, charged with a serious crime, thanks to a principled mom who wants her children held accountable for their actions.
Around 4:30 on Tuesday morning, a police officer attempted to pull over a red vehicle with no lights for driving erratically down the interstate near Holly Springs, Mississippi, about 40 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. Rather than comply, an individual inside the red vehicle fired two shots at the officer, striking the police cruiser once. The officer, thankfully, was not injured in the incident.
"It was dangerous for the officers and any other pedestrian and anyone that was on that interstate at that time," said Holly Springs police Chief Darryl Bowens. "That was a very dangerous situation."
A Marshall County deputy later spotted the red vehicle and reported seeing suspects abandon the car and then run into the woods. The suspects' images were soon afterward captured on a Ring home camera.
Police released those images to the public and by Wednesday morning, barely 24 hours after the shooting, had received a tip from a reliable source: the boys' mother. The woman, who did not want her identity revealed, claimed she saw the pictures and immediately recognized the suspects as her 17- and 18-year-old sons.
"I was like, 'Are you serious? Oh, hell no,'" she said. She then marched her sons over to the police station.
"I don't play no games with them," she continued. "If you're going to do the crime, you're going to do the time — plain and simple."
Despite the apparently damning evidence against them, the boys insisted to their mother that they were not involved in the shooting. She told WMC that the allegations against them are "very shocking" and she hopes they will be exonerated. "My child does not get in trouble. He don’t bother nobody. They don’t do nothing. All they do is play games. This is very new," she said.
The boys, whose names have not been released, have been charged with aggravated assault of a police officer. Police have also interviewed a third person of interest in the case but have not charged him.
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