{"id":79487,"date":"2019-09-05T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=79487"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:26:11","slug":"gunfight-in-oxford-mississippi-leads-to-one-arrest-one-suspect-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/gunfight-in-oxford-mississippi-leads-to-one-arrest-one-suspect-at-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfight in Oxford, Mississippi Leads to One Arrest, One Suspect At Large"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday, September 2, 2019, at approximately 7:00 pm, officers with the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> responded to the area of <strong>Cedarcrest Drive<\/strong> for a shots fired called. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers arrived on scene and learned that two individuals were shooting at each other after an altercation. One of the suspects, <strong>Christopher Mathis<\/strong> (40 of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>), was detained by patrol on\u00a0 the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators found that some of the bullets entered occupied homes in the surrounding area. No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathis was transported to the Lafayette County Detention Center where he was booked for shooting into an occupied dwelling and possession of a weapon by a felon. Mathis was given a bond of $200,000 by a Justice Court Judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other shooting suspect, <strong>Christopher Butler<\/strong> (29 of Oxford, Mississippi), is still at large. He is currently out on felony bond for drive by shooting and possession of a weapon by a felon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any information about his whereabouts please call the Oxford Police Department at 662-232-2400 or CrimeStoppers at 662-234-8477.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><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\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mathis-Christopher.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mathis-Christopher.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mathis-Christopher.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Christopher Mathis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2061\" height=\"1801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?fit=900%2C787\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?w=2061&amp;ssl=1 2061w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?resize=300%2C262&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?resize=768%2C671&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C895&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Butler-Christopher-1.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Christopher Butler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, September 2, 2019, at approximately 7:00 pm, officers with the Oxford Police Department responded to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":79490,"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":[15252,14333,15253,7522,2092],"class_list":["post-79487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-cedarcrest-drive","tag-christopher-butler","tag-christopher-mathis","tag-oxford-mississippi","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-05-Gunfight.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79487","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=79487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}