COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) Yellow crime scene tape and Police lights were still present at the intersection of 22nd Street and 15th Avenue North Friday morning, after a traffic stop quickly escalated into a pursuit to a dead end.

“When they got to the dead-end street, from what we are told from the preliminary investigation,” said Joseph Daughtry, Columbus Police Chief. “Is that the suspect turned his vehicle around, heading towards the officer, and then the officer discharged his weapon into the vehicle?”

Columbus Police Chief Joseph Daughtry told WCBI that the officer chased the suspect, and with the help of the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, a perimeter was set up, and a suspect was taken into custody.

32-year-old Taylor G. Jackson is being charged with one count of simple assault on a

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