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Man killed, another injured in Marshall County shootout

By Raven Copeland Mar 24, 2025 | 9:55 AM

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is dead and another is in critical condition after a shootout in Red Banks, Mississippi, Marshall County Sheriff Kenny Dickerson confirmed.

Sheriff Dickerson said the shooting occurred at Joe Joe’s Truck Stop, located in the 4100 block of US-78 in Red Banks.

Two people reportedly started shooting at each other. One man was killed and another is in critical condition at Regional One.

“He walked up, they said a couple of words – the next thing I know, I heard gunshots,” Tara Baldwin said. “I didn’t even realize that’s what it was. It was so quick.”

Baldwin, a worker at Joe Joe’s Truck Stop described to WREG what she saw and heard the night of the shooting.

“He came in walking in to get his food, he had his baby with him. He got her a popsicle, they were on their way outside,” Baldwin said. “They had just put the baby in the car and that’s when the other people had pulled up in the car.”

Baldwin said the victim’s young daughter witnessed her father’s final moments.

“That baby was sitting there saying her daddy’s dead,” she said. “She seen her daddy die and there’s no way, she’s never gonna forget something like that. That’s always gonna be with her. It’s just sad, what people are doing these days.”

After the shooting happened, Baldwin told WREG that witnesses and her 19-year-old daughter did what they could to save the man’s life.

She said her daughter also moved the loaded gun at the scene.

However, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said those actions led to her arrest.

“She had got the gun and gave it to an adult,” Baldwin said. “They got her detained cause they said she was tampering with evidence and it’s not that she was tampering with evidence, she was just making sure that that gun was not picked up and no more rounds out of that gun was fired.”

Two other people were arrested for tampering with the crime scene after the fact.

Baldwin said her daughter is almost six months pregnant. She’s hoping she will be released soon.

In the meantime, she’s praying for the loved ones affected by this weekend’s deadly shooting.

“It was a good man that lost his life. A good father, a good husband,” Baldwin said. “I mean he did what he could for his family. He would do anything for anybody around this town.”

The names of the men involved in the shootout nor the names of the other people who were arrested have been released.