The base is hosting about 4,600 active-duty soldiers, National Guard and reservists from Texas and Mississippi in a summer training exercise.
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Authorities told WATP that they are unsure whether Baria actually fired shots or caused his Isuzu pickup truck to backfire.
The matter has been turned over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
At Camp Shelby, guards at all base entrances were armed under a recent order from Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Col. Christian Patterson said. All the while Wednesday, armored vehicles chugged through 134,000 acres of pine forest while fighter planes staged mock attacks overhead.
Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith confirmed during the press conference that they were still interviewing the suspect.
“It actually sounds like it hits you, it’s so loud”, the son said.
“I have not tested the vehicle so I’m not willing to say one way or the other on that part of it”, he said. He drove by way of a patrol checkpoint quickly after the photographs have been reported on Wednesday, and authorities informed WATP he admitted to driving his pink pickup truck within the space the place each incidents occurred.
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.
And those pipes? Two big, long ones were for plumbing a newly built auto fix shop in the backyard, Alfred Baria Jr said.
Reports indicate that no one was injured.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was called in to examine a suspicious package found in the back of Baria’s truck, but determined that it was not explosives, according to the AP. “He wanted it to look like” a pipe bomb. Alfred Baria Jr. talks about charges against his father outside the shop behind their mobile home where they fix cars Wednesday, August 5, 2015, in New Augusta, Miss. Smith said Baria would likely be appointed a lawyer at a bail hearing scheduled Thursday.
