After a sheriff’s deputy was shot and died on Sunday night while responding to a domestic incident, the town in Mississippi is in grief.
In a Facebook post, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones named the deceased deputy as Martin Shields, Jr., 37.
Although Shields had been with the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office for roughly nine months, the sheriff stated that “his law enforcement career extends beyond being employed with the HCSO.” Social media memorial messages revealed prior work with the Jackson Police Department and the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
According to the Jackson Fallen Firefighters Memorial Foundation, Shields’ father was a captain when he resigned from HCSO.
There aren’t many facts available, although Jones had stated a few hours prior that a “very serious situation” was occurring in Terry, Mississippi, which is about 15 miles southwest of Jackson, on the 15000 block of Midway Road.
At the aforementioned home, Shields and an unnamed Hinds County deputy were responding to a domestic call at a residence. Jones claimed to have heard the second deputy arrive on the radio and call for “shots fired” before heading to the Midway Road site.
Eric Brown, 42, was “wanted for questioning regarding the situation on Midway Road” and was deemed dangerous and armed, prompting a “Be On the Lookout” advisory on Sunday night. When authorities declared there was no longer an active threat, the alert was canceled just before ten o’clock at night.
An “unidentified Black male subject believed to be related to the call” was discovered dead inside the Midway Road residence, according to a Facebook post announcing the deputy’s passing at approximately 10:19 p.m. Whether or whether that individual was Brown was not specified.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is helping with the ongoing investigation into the shooting.
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The two guys had just reacted to a capsized boat together earlier in the day, Jones wrote in a moving homage to Shields on his professional Facebook page early Monday morning. He claimed that he repeatedly paged Shields without receiving a response as he was answering the “shots fired” call.
“Despite being in survival mode owing to the circumstances, the deputy who called “guns fired” nevertheless carried out extremely valiant actions. I hurried to the site without hearing back from the fallen deputy, and my heart plummeted. He had been shot and was clearly dead just before I got there,” Jones said, adding that there was a “outpouring of support” at the scene.
He stated that Shields “died a hero” as well “while responding to a call for service to assist someone in need.”
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“He fulfilled his assignment and his God-given mission on earth. Pray for his family, his friends, the many lives he touched, and the men and women of the HCSO as we all prepare for a final salute,” he stated. “There’s absolutely no way I could ever imagine or prepare to tell a family their deputy will not be coming home from their tour of duty. However, tragically, I found myself in that situation late this evening.”
The death of Shields is the most recent in a horrific weekend for law enforcement nationwide.
Late Friday night, while conducting a traffic stop, two Virginia Beach police officers were shot and died Saturday morning.
Andrew Duarte, a West York Borough Patrolman, was shot and died on Saturday morning while responding to an active shooter at UPMC Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania.
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