Two men on the run after firing into Mississippi military base - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Members of the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team participate in a casing ceremony as their training comes to an end at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Miss. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two men who fired gunshots from a vehicle at soldiers at a military facility in Mississippi, although no one was reported wounded, a sheriff said Tuesday. Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith told WDAM-TV that the soldiers were training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center near Hattiesburg. Mississippi's National Guard said soldiers training at Camp Shelby reported hearing shots fired at 11:45 a. m. along Peret Tower Road, near the training facility. Christian Patterson said the shots were fired from a fringe road that runs along the eastern side of the base. They reported it to their chain of command and then we reported it to the local authorities," Patterson said. The guard made no mention of whether the shots were believed to have been fired at troops but made clear that the shots are believed to have been fired from outside Camp Shelby. Smith had previously described the vehicle as a red Ford Ranger with "broken arrow" written across the top. The giant military base south of Hattiesburg is one of the premier training facilities for National Guard troops from across the country and. Source: www.timesfreepress.com
