Shields, 37, was killed in the line of duty Sunday, Feb. 23, while responding to a domestic disturbance call in Terry. According to Sheriff Tyree Jones, Shields and another deputy got into a shootout ...

Jones says the deputy’s father, Martin Shields, Sr., is a retired Jackson firefighter who is currently a reserve deputy with the department. “He comes from public service blood,” Jones said. “He was a ...

Bailey Martin, press secretary for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS), said the deputy was responding to a ...

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said a deputy has died after being shot on Midway Road in Terry. He said the deputy, 37-year ...

Hinds County Deputy Martin Shields Jr., who was killed in the line of duty, is being remembered as plans are underway for his funeral services. A procession is taking place Monday in which law ...

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones announced during a Friday live streamed press conference that two Hinds County detainees have died at the Tallahatchie Correctional Facility in what could be drug ...

My wife’s sister and her husband have for years both worked third shift (a.k.a. “the graveyard shift”), and they seem to be ...

Former interim Hinds County Sheriff Marshand Crisler was sentenced on Tuesday to federal prison after being found guilty of soliciting and accepting $9,500 in bribe money during his 2021 campaign.

According to prosecutors, the bribes took place while Crisler was running against current sheriff Tyree Jones in 2021. Crisler's defense asserted Moore's payments were not bribes, but only ...

He lost in a runoff election to Tyree Jones, the incumbent Crisler faced two years earlier. This story was originally published by Mississippi Today and distributed through a partnership with The ...