Mississippi Walmart Shootout Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured

A man was killed and a police officer was injured after what began as a traffic pursuit ended with an exchange of gunfire inside a Wal-Mart store in northeastern Mississippi, authorities said Sunday.

Two officers from the Iuka Police Department started following a man in a car around 6:10 p.m., Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said.

Strain said crime scene investigators were collecting evidence Sunday night at the store in Iuka, about five miles from the Alabama border.

The Huffington Post