{"id":109542,"date":"2021-02-09T09:46:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109542"},"modified":"2021-02-09T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:46:59","slug":"one-person-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-near-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/one-person-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-near-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"One Person Dead After Officer-Involved Shooting Near Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One person is dead following an officer-involved shooting in <strong>Lafayette County<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 11:29 pm on Monday, February 8, 2021, an officer from the<strong> Oxford Police Department<\/strong> attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the vehicle fled, leading police on a chase. According to OPD, the vehicle eventually stopped and the driver ran from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moments later, the driver was shot in an officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shooting happened in <strong>Abbeville<\/strong>, just north of <strong>Oxford<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>. No officers were hurt, OPD said. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi Bureau of Investigation<\/strong> was contacted and has taken charge of an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation and more information will be released at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead following an officer-involved shooting in Lafayette County. Around 11:29 pm on Monday, February 8,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":34351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[1968,256,5,8746,4,2092],"class_list":["post-109542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-abbeville","tag-lafayette-county","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-bureau-of-investigation","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/crime-scene.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}