re: Officer shot in Biloxi at black spring break.

Biloxi Sun Herald

MS Coast police officer among 3 injured in shooting on last day of Black spring break

BY MARGARET BAKER
MBBAKER@SUNHERALD.COM
31 minutes ago

A Coast police officer and other civilians were injured Sunday when shots rang out on U.S. 90 on the final day of Black spring break.

The shots could be heard in the 2400 block of the beachfront highway near Surf Style and elsewhere, authorities confirmed.

Biloxi police spokesperson Grandver Everett said authorities are still trying to piece together exactly what happened, where and how many were injured.

“We were all outside our vehicles working traffic and it started,” Everett said Sunday, noting that he could only speak for what he saw from his vantage point.

“It was all around us,” Everett said. “ We had officers responding to multiple locations.”

The Biloxi police officer who was shot and injured was among other officers from different agencies responding to the action that also prompted crowds in the area of gunfire to run for safety. A video shows members of law enforcement helping the injured officer get to an ambulance.

The officer sustained minor injuries and was treated at an area hospital, Biloxi Spokesperson Cecilia Dobbs Walton said Sunday night. The other two victims also suffered minor injuries and were taken to an area hospital for treatment.

Biloxi police, the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department, and officers from Gulfport, Ocean Springs, and surrounding agencies are also on scene to assist.

A Coast police officer was injured after law enforcement responded to a shooting near Surf Style on U.S. 90 in Biloxi on April 16, 2023.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, which investigates all police-related shootings statewide, has also been called to respond to investigate.

The Mississippi Department Of Public Safety commissioner Sean Tindell said the agency is still gathering information.

The incident Sunday comes a day after reports of gunfire at Edgewater Mall that resulted in its early closure, though police said they had not found any gun or evidence of a shooting there. There was also a fatal shooting Saturday night at a Biloxi apartment Complex.