MERIDIAN, Miss.—A former police officer suspected of killing a Mississippi police officer who was responding to a call about domestic violence has been arrested, authorities said Friday.
Dante Marquez Bender, 31, was taken into custody the day after Meridian Police Officer Kennis Croom was fatally shot while answering a call, authorities said.
A woman believed to be Bender’s girlfriend or fiancée, Brittany Jones, also was found dead at the scene where Croom was shot, authorities said.
“This whole incident is tragic and senseless,” Meridian Police Chief Deborah Naylor-Young told a news conference.
Croom was the first officer to respond to a call about a disturbance at a residence on Thursday afternoon and informed a dispatcher “he had one at gunpoint,” she said. Soon after he reported that shots were being fired, according to Naylor-Young….