Mississippi Officer Recovering From Shooting
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Associated Press
ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) -- The family of an Aberdeen police officer says he has no feeling below the waist after a weekend shooting.
Cpl. James Johnson, 45, was shot in the right shoulder Saturday night after a struggle at the Aberdeen Police Department with Jeremy Davis of Amory, police said.
Davis, 23, was charged with aggravated assault of a police officer, aggravated assault manifesting in extreme indifference to the value of human life, possession of a firearm by a felon and burglary of a dwelling.
He is being held in jail on a $2 million bond.
According to police reports, Davis, who was being booked for driving under the influence, grabbed Johnson's gun and shot him. The bullet missed the protective vest Johnson was wearing.
"The bullet went in the right shoulder and went down his back,'' said June Roebuck, the officer's sister. "The bullet lodged in the bones that surround the spinal cord.''
Roebuck said her brother was moved out of the intensive care unit at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus.
"They put him in a room, but he still doesn't have feeling from the waist down,'' she said. "They're waiting for the swelling to go down.''
Johnson, a five-year veteran of the department, had retired from the U.S. Army and the National Guard before joining the department.