Murder suspect kills investigator inside police HQ

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A murder suspect being interviewed on the third floor at Jackson (Mississipi) police headquarters shot a detective Thursday.

Police have identified the murder suspect as Jeremy Powell, 23. Both the detective and the suspect had been shot multiple times.

The officer was identified as Det. Eric Smith, 40, who was assigned to the Robbery-Homicide Division and had been with the department since 1995.

Police said Powell was in the process of being arrested in the killing Monday of one Christopher Alexander whose body was found Monday near a Jackson street, stabbed in the neck.

"He was in the processing of questioning that suspect," City police spokesman Chris Mims
said. "Other officers in the police department heard gunshots ring out and when they went to the interview room, discovered that both the suspect and the detective were deceased."

The police headquarters was on lockdown Thursday night, Mims said.