An incident happened in Lucedale that I hear has been on the Internet, and of course all over the Mississippi media.
Here's the jist of it. Around 5:30am a black teenager tried to break into the house of his ex-girlfriend. The girl called her mother, who then called police. The boy fled before officers arrived.

Just minutes later, a cop saw a black youth run a stop sign, then a red light. He pulled the teen over and told him to stay put as he ran the driver's license and plates. The cop went to his patrol car and moments later looked up to see the teen, wearing camo (he was a deer hunter) exit his pickup, heard a shot, and found the boy dead on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head, with his rifle or shotgun (I don't remember which) lying on top of him. It was the same teen who had tried to break into his girlfriend's house.

The family thought the entire episode strange, and called the NAACP. Police authorities call it a suicide--but some people think the trigger maybe caught on his clothing and the death was accidental. The family asked for a private autopsy over and above the medical examiner's findings.

I find it strange that this teen was out trying to break into a house at 5:30am on a school day. I find it's strange that the teen got out of his truck holding a gun after being told to stay in it. Should a cop tell me to stay put, that's what I would do. Getting out with a weapon makes cops very nervous. I think maybe that teen thought the jig was up and meant to shoot that policeman.

Right now no ones knows exactly the why or what of the matter. Investigation continues. susil