Two officers received minor injuries during the standoff, Bell said. One commander had glass from a shattered windshield hit his eye. Heavy fire came on officers when they drove a car around.” “We had the water cut off in case if we were to shoot some tear gas in there he wouldn’t have a way to wash his eyes and things like that. “We determined that we were going to have to try and get him out, so basically we called Entergy to try and control the lights,” he said. Shots were ricocheting all over the place, then he would stop, and all of a sudden he would start again,” Bell said after the incident. Smith refused, he said, and then, without warning, Smith just started shooting. His parents showed up at the scene, and they called him and texted him for awhile trying to get him to come out, Bell said. Their names were not made public.īell said they tried to talk the man out of apartment 42. No photographs were taken of agents receiving their accolades.

We thank them for their above-and-beyond response to the call of duty,” he wrote on his Facebook page to acknowledge the ceremony. It is the least we can do for the men and women who protect us each day. “Today, I awarded seven Medals of Valor to Mississippi Bureau of Narcotic agents for bravery and swift action from an incident in 2015. Phil Bryant for their part in a six-hour standoff in 2015 at a Brookhaven apartment building that left one man dead and two police officers injured. Seven agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics received Medals of Valor Tuesday from Gov. Phil Bryant presented Medals of Valor to seven MBN agents for their part in the standoff. 12, 2015, including a SWAT team of Mississippi Highway Patrol and Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics as well as Brookhaven Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. Daily Leader file photo/Several law enforcement agencies arrived throughout a six-hour standoff in Brookhaven on Oct.

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