Community donates medic kits to Tishomingo deputies
IUKA, Miss. (AP) – Tishomingo County Sheriff’s deputies now have a new tool available when they’re in the field.
Sheriff John Daugherty says the community has provided 15 medical bags for deputies to carry in their vehicles.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the need for officers to have basic medical knowledge and supplies was driven home by a February standoff outside of Iuka that left one officer dead and three others injured in a shootout.
Deputy Brandon Slack, who is also a paramedic, says a bullet struck one officer’s femoral artery. Slack says he would have bled to death if the Highway Patrol SWAT team didn’t carry tourniquets.
Air Evac is providing tourniquets and training to the sheriff’s office and the Belmont, Burnsville, Golden, Iuka and Tishomingo police departments.
