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 Abram Wade Franklin, 29, was charged with obstruction of justice
over the shootings that occurred during a routine traffic stop on
Saturday, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a
statement.
Officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, a recent police
academy graduate, were shot after Deen stopped a gold Cadillac
Escalade in the city of Hattiesburg.
Autopsy results by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations released
on Monday showed one of the officers was shot in the face and the
other in the back.
At least one of the suspects fled in a police car that was later
found abandoned. Officials have declined to discuss a possible
motive.
Marvin Banks, 29, was charged with two counts of capital murder
while his brother, Curtis Banks, 26, and Joanie Calloway, 22, were
charged with accessory after the fact of capital murder. Cornelius
Clark had also been charged with obstruction of justice.
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The shooting, which was the first killing of a Hattiesburg police
officer in more than 30 years, shook the southern Mississippi city
of 48,000 people.
Deen and Tate were the ninth and 10th law enforcement officers in
the United States shot and killed by assailants in 2015, according
to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a non-profit organization that
tracks police deaths in the line of duty.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Michael
Perry)
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