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Black Female Cop Killed In Mississippi

A police offi­cer has been shot to death in the Mississippi Delta city where she grew up, and sev­er­al oth­er peo­ple were injured by gunfire.
Greenville Police Department Detective Myiesha Stewart, 30, was killed Tuesday night as she and oth­er offi­cers respond­ed to a call, accord­ing to Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell.
“Our com­mu­ni­ty is hurt­ing,” Greenville Mayor Mayor Errick D. Simmons said Wednesday out­side City Hall, where he was joined by law enforce­ment officers.
Simmons said Stewart is sur­vived by her 3‑year-old son, her par­ents and oth­er fam­i­ly members. 
Tindell said in a state­ment that a sus­pect was hos­pi­tal­ized and is in cus­tody. The com­mis­sion­er did not iden­ti­fy the sus­pect or spec­i­fy their injuries. Tindell pro­vid­ed no oth­er details about the cir­cum­stances of Stewart’s killing.
Greenville, with a pop­u­la­tion of about 28,775, is close to the Arkansas state line, about 110 miles (180 kilo­me­ters) north of Jackson, Mississippi. News out­lets report­ed that the shoot­ings hap­pened at the inter­sec­tion of U.S. Highway 82 and Mississippi Highway 1.

Stewart grad­u­at­ed from high school in Greenville. She majored in crim­i­nal jus­tice at near­by Delta State University, where she played bas­ket­ball in the 2013 – 14 sea­son. “She was one who exhib­it­ed courage,” Simmons said. “She was one who put fear aside to help some­one else.”
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is exam­in­ing the shoot­ing of Stewart, as it does with all shoot­ings involv­ing offi­cers in the state.
“I am tru­ly sad­dened by the trag­ic loss of Detective Stewart,” Republican Gov. Tate Reeves wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “Please join me in prayer for her fam­i­ly, her friends, and the entire Greenville Police Department.”
Two oth­er Mississippi law enforce­ment offi­cers have been killed on duty this year. Johnny Patterson was struck by a car Jan. 13 while direct­ing traf­fic in front of an ele­men­tary school in Shannon, and he died eight days lat­er. Patterson was work­ing for the school and was assis­tant police chief in Verona. On June 9, Meridian Police Department offi­cer Kennis Croom was shot to death while respond­ing to a domes­tic vio­lence call.