‘He shot her several times.’ Coast man surrenders in shooting of wife, an Air Force vet
The family of a St. Martin woman shot and seriously injured Thursday in a domestic violence incident identified her as retired Air Force veteran Michelle Coleman, 43.
Coleman suffered serious injuries early Thursday when her husband allegedly shot her several times at her home on Brookstone Drive in the St. Martin community, Sheriff Mike Ezell said.
Just after 1 p.m, sheriff’s deputes managed to get the man to surrender and he is now in custody, Ezell said, though his identity has not yet been released.
The man had been holed up in the second floor of his home while deputies talked to him until they were able to get him to surrender, Ezell said.
Deputies got to the scene in the 11600 block of Brookstone Drive shortly after 7 a.m., and one of the deputies managed to get the man’s injured wife out of the home and into an ambulance to Singing River Health System’s Ocean Springs hospital. The woman has since been airlifted to USA Medical Center in Mobile.
“He shot her several times,” Ezell said. “It’s pretty serious.”
“We have some guys in the house and they are talking to him right now,” Ezell said earlier Thursday. “We threw a phone up there to him, and we are trying to get him to answer. Right now, we are in a holding pattern to see how it goes.”
The sheriff said deputies went to the home in response to a 911 call reporting the shooting.
“We are doing everything we can to talk this man out and get this resolved,” Ezell said earlier “So far, if you think about it, we have been able to deescalate it some. We want this thing to end peacefully and we are going to do everything in our power to get that done.”
The sheriff’s department set up a staging area for media around Osprey Drive and Old Fort Bayou Road.
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This story was originally published September 9, 2021 at 11:15 AM.
