Marines conducting a training exercise at Mississippi’s Camp Shelby reported two incidents of shots being fired nearby this week, and police have arrested a 61-year-old man who said it was his truck backfiring.
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Last month, Bryant issued an executive order allowing the National Guard to arm certain full-time personnel at military facilities.
In the first incident, a man driving a pickup allegedly fired shots around 11:45 a.m. (12:45 p.m. ET) Tuesday near two soldiers who were at the checkpoint, Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith said. Wednesday when Alfred Baria Sr drove past officers on a state highway just south of New Augusta.
Investigators are curious one of importance after footages have been supposedly dismissed a minute sequential daytime near an army site in the southern part of Mississippi, authorities said Wednesday.
It is still not clear if there was any actual gunfire or if the soldiers at Camp Shelby were in any way targets, officials said. All the while Wednesday, armored vehicles chugged through 134,000 acres of pine forest while fighter planes staged mock attacks overhead.
Smith’s description of the pickup was slightly different than Patterson’s: The sheriff said authorities were looking Tuesday for a maroon pickup with black rims. Small pipe containers with caps were for storing auto parts and hardware, he said, showing a reporter one on a shelf inside the shop.
While doing a quest imprimatur police activites found couple of pistolsrifles at Baria’s own home along with a coated with sealer tube in vehicle. And those pipes? Two big, long ones were for plumbing a newly built auto fix shop in the backyard, Alfred Baria Jr. said.Barria admitted being the driver of the truck, Smith said. “He wanted it to look like” a pipe bomb.
Alfred Baria Sr. said his truck often backfires, and he could even make the truck backfire when he wished.
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“The soldiers at Camp Shelby and across the state can and should take appropriate steps to defend themselves as necessary”, he said in a statement. Baria will likely be appointed a lawyer Thursday at a bail hearing.
