JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The mother of a man who shot four Mississippi state troopers and was killed by police says police refused to let her talk to her son during nearly six hours of negotiations.
Katherine Hudson of Iuka said she thinks family members could have convinced Charles Lee Lambert, 45, to leave without bloodshed.
Lambert had holed up in a house near Iuka in northern Mississippi. Police stormed the house early Saturday. Lambert began shooting. James Lee Tartt, 44, an agent in the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, was killed and three other officers were wounded in the shootout that followed.
A preliminary autopsy report indicates that Tartt was hit in the left shoulder by a single bullet from an assault rifle, and the bullet ricocheted within his body, Tishomingo County Coroner Mack Wilemon said Sunday night. He said he thought Saturday that Tartt had been hit by more bullets, but was mistaken.
Lambert also was killed; his autopsy has not yet been performed.