Mississippi trooper hurt in shootout goes home in procession
AP-MS–Mississippi Police Shooting-Officer Released
Mississippi trooper hurt in shootout goes home in procession
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A police procession has taken a Mississippi state trooper wounded nearly two weeks ago in a shootout from a hospital to his home near Laurel.
Media outlets report that Lt. Trea Staples was released Friday from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agent Lee Tartt and standoff suspect Charles Lambert were killed when police raided Lambert’s home early Feb. 20 near Iuka.
Staples tells WAPT-TV he was shot in the femoral artery and vein and nearly bled to death. Surgery in a Corinth hospital stopped the bleeding and Staples was later transferred to Jackson.
Highway Patrol corporals Bubba Holifield and Deandre Dixon, also wounded by gunfire, were released earlier.
Staples says he plans to rejoin the Highway Patrol SWAT team.
