Two Mississippi Cops Shot, Killed: Police Car Stolen

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banks-MS-collage-640x480UPDATE, 2:39 AM:  One suspect has allegedly been apprehended.

UPDATE, 1:40 AM: The two officers shot to death have been identified as Benjamin J. Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25.

UPDATE, 1:20 AM: Both photos of the alleged crime scene and the suspects have become available, according to a reporter on the scene.

UPDATE, 1:00 AM: Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree urges residents to stay inside, issuing a statement of strong support for the police killed in the line of duty, according to The Clarion-Ledger: 

Law enforcement authorities are looking for Curtis and Marvin Banks as suspects. Both men are Hattiesburg residents.

Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree said is asking residents to remain at home and inside while authorities search for the suspect.

“The men and women who go out every day to protect us, the men and woman who go out every day to make sure that we’re safe, they were turned on (Saturday) night,” DuPree said during a brief news conference outside the hospital. “But the person or persons who did this are not safe in the City of Hattiesburg.”

Multiple law enforcement agencies swarmed to the scene between Gordon Street and East Fourth Street, crisscrossing throughout the fringes of downtown.

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Hattiesburg residents Tamika Mills and Pearnell Roberts discovered the two officers who had been shot. The pair got out to check on the officers and called 9-1-1.

“Never in my life have I experienced or seen anything like this expect on TV and to be in the midst of it, it’s shocking and heartbreaking,” Mills said. “As we were coming down Fourth Street, we noticed a bunch of lights. As we came on through, (Roberts) told me to turn around because she saw somebody laying on the ground.

“So I backed up. That’s when we noticed the officer was down. We just saw that one, but in the course of me being on the phone with 9-1-1, I turned and I saw another officer across the street rolling on the ground. (Roberts) ran across the street to check on him. He wasn’t all the way alert but he asked her, ‘Am I dying? I know I’m dying. Just hand me my walkie-talkie.’”

UPDATE, 12:36 AM: The Meridian Police Department confirms that police are searching for two suspects: Curtis and Marvin Banks. From NewsCenter 11:

Newscenter 11 has confirmed through the Meridian Police Dept. that both officers involved in a shooting in Hattiesburg around 9pm have died.

Police are looking for two suspects wanted in connection with this double homicide. Police are looking for Curtis Banks and Marvin Banks. It is unknown whether or not they are still in the area.

UPDATE, 12:30 AM: Police are reportedly searching for a suspect named Curtis Banks.

On Saturday night, two Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officers were shot and killed. Law enforcement officials believe the suspect may have stolen a police car afterward, then abandoned it.

The names of the officers have not been released.

According to WWLTV, the officers were shot in downtown Hattiesburg “near East Fourth and Bouie streets around 8 p.m.” Their deaths mark “the first slaying of a Hattiesburg officer since Jackie Dole Sherrill was killed on New Year’s Eve in 1984.”

Numerous law enforcement personnel are still on the seen,while others are searching for the suspect.

They found a police car abandoned on Gordon Street. They believe this car was stolen by the suspect.

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