Slain Special Agent James Lee Tartt
IUKA-Authorities say the gunfight that left a Mississippi law enforcement agent dead and three state troopers injured followed a six-hour standoff on Friday night, February 19 after a man barricaded himself along with his wife and 10-year-old daughter in their home was the result of a domestic dispute.
The incident ended in gunfire sometime after midnight when officers tried to get the suspect to surrender and he opened fire . Multiple police agencies remained on the scene Saturday afternoon at the one-story house in sparsely populated woods in Tishomingo County.
Charles Lambert
Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain says the woman and child were rescued, but the man was killed after he opened fire as tactical teams entered the home in rural northeastern Mississippi.
Of the three other law enforcement officials who were wounded, two had injuries that were not life-threatening.
The victims have been identified, killed were 44-tear-old Mississippi narcotics agent James Lee Tartt and suspected gunman Charles Lee Lambert, who was 45.
