Officers shoot 2 people in 2 days in northern Mississippi

HORN LAKE, Miss. (AP) — Employees of a sheriff’s department in north Mississippi have shot two people within two days.

The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department told WMC-TV that one of its deputies shot and wounded an armed person during a traffic stop at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in Horn Lake.

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said the second shooting by a DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department employee happened about 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Olive Branch. The department did not give details about the circumstances of the shooting or the person’s condition.

The department said one of its divisions, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, is examining both cases, as it does with all shootings by or of law enforcement officers in the state.

Thursday’s shooting makes at least 11 officer-involved shootings in the state investigated by MBI since June.