PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Stone County Sergeant Demetrius Scott is back on duty after a house call to serve a warrant sent him to the hospital.

“With all the news stories and stuff that you always see, I just didn’t expect it to happen to me until it was right there,” Scott said. “I was looking dead at it.”

Scott visited a home on Carl Taylor Road in Wiggins on Sept. 28.

Once there, Scott said he spotted a man who resembled a potential suspect.

“The actual guy we were looking for also ran from us and did the same thing,” said Scott. “So, it was my impression that that was the guy we were looking for.”

Scott told WDAM 7 that the man ran into the woods, and he followed, only to be met with gunfire.

“Around the time that I actually caught up to him and was about to apprehend him, that’s

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