ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY FRIDAY | JANUARY 19, 2018 Bullet from Walmart shooting passed through bystander’s jacket Aggravated assault added to shooting 12 West. Officers arrested Chisholm in the store’s park- Starkville police suspect Tommy Chisholm’s charges ing lot shortly after arriving officers escort on scene. William Thomas BY ALEX HOLLOWAY with aggravated assault Witt, the sole optometrist Chisholm out of [email protected] during a Thursday afternoon at the Walmart’s eye center, Starkville City Hall to the jail Thursday. appearance in Starkville Mu- was in an “on again, off again He is charged with A Kosciusko man arrest- nicipal Court. dating relationship” with capital murder, ed for a fatal shooting at Starkville police arrested Chisholm, according to po- malicious mischief Walmart in west Starkville on Chisholm on Saturday morn- lice. and aggravated as- Saturday is now also facing ing after he allegedly shot Police reported no one sault from a week- end fatal shooting an aggravated assault charge. else was hurt in the incident. and killed 42-year-old optom- at Walmart in west William Thomas etrist Shauna Witt inside the However, according to an Starkville. Chisholm, 41, was charged Walmart at 1010 Highway See CHISHOLM, 6A Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff Man bites Bursting with trouble officer during drug arrest Officer required stitches on his hand DISPATCH STAFF REPORT A man who al- legedly bit a police officer is in custody at Lowndes County Adult Detention Cen- ter. Brian Keith Bish- op, 36, of 313 Mar- Bishop shall Dr., is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer as well as several misde- meanors, for allegedly biting a nar- cotics officer while attempting to run from a drug arrest, according to a Columbus Police Department press release. After Bishop’s car stopped in the 2200 block of Main Street near the Salvation Army office Thursday, a CPD officer stopped to assist him. While approaching the vehicle, the officer smelled marijuana and called for back-up. Members of the joint drug task force arrived to assist the See ASSAULT, 3A Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff Brent Thompson, with Starkville-based clean-up company Paul Davis Emergency Services, clears out damaged insulation from a ceiling in one of the many Starkville homes with water damage from frozen pipes. Former Starkville Parks head arrested Leaks from frozen pipes keep plumbers busy, for embezzling $21K BY ALEX HOLLOWAY cost homeowners thousands in some cases [email protected] Starkville police BY ISABELLE ALTMAN ‘A lot of people don’t understand how much arrested three sus- [email protected] pects with ties to damage can be caused’ the Starkville Parks One day after a hard over- and Recreation De- night freeze earlier this month, Abby Thompson of Starkville-based clean-up company Paul Davis Emergency Services partment for embez- Starkville resident Vaughn Nickels zlement Thursday went into her kitchen to find what afternoon, including she described as a “waterfall.” from the road, but now she’s hav- since the weather began reach- Peters ing to renovate and redo the entire ing below freezing temperatures former director Her- She and her husband had for- man Peters. gotten to turn their faucets on to kitchen. Despite the hassle, she at night over the last couple of said, it could have been worse — weeks. Andrew Benton, owner of Police also arrested 33-year-old drip and a water pipe in their attic Anthony Stevenson, of Starkville had frozen and burst, flooding the if the flood had begun while they Columbus-based plumbing com- were sleeping, she and her hus- pany Benton’s Maintenance and and 46-year-old Marion Watson, attic and destroying the ceiling. of Eupora. Each of the suspects band may have woken up to an en- Mechanical, Inc., has been work- “I was scared to death,” Nickels turned themselves in on felony war- said. tirely saturated home. ing until 10 p.m. or even midnight every night. rants, according to press releases She ran outside to find a neigh- Such stories have become SPD issued Thursday evening. bor to help her turn her water off common in the Golden Triangle See FROZEN PIPES, 6A Peters, 51, served as Starkville’s director of Parks and Recreation See EMBEZZLEMENT, 3A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR COMING PUBLIC 1 What former shipyard worker was 3322 for more information. SUNDAY MEETINGS Saturday Jan 22: awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ■ Frostbite Half-Mara- 1983? 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Sunday’s paper. pal Complex DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com SAY WHAT? DID YOU HEAR? “It’s just a matter of how hard you’re working and not taking plays off.” Can #MeToo movement do harm? MSU senior guard Roshunda Johnson. Ansari story raises question Friday Story, 1B. ‘Too many women have joined #MeToo too quickly and unthinkingly’ Beverly Hills psychiatrist and author A THOUSAND WORDS Carole Lieberman BY DAVID CRARY “Too many women AND TAMARA LUSH have joined #MeToo too The Associated Press quickly and unthinkingly,” said Carole Lieberman, a The #MeToo move- Beverly Hills psychiatrist ment has been embraced and author of the relation- by legions of women as ship books “Bad Boys” a vital step toward coun- and “Bad Girls.” tering widespread sexual “Though they may abuse and misconduct. have wanted to be in sol- This week, more so than idarity with other women, at any point in the move- the stories of dates gone ment’s brief history, wrong or women scorned there’s visceral discus- have detracted from wom- sion about its potential for en who have been raped causing harm. or seriously sexually as- The catalyst was the saulted,” she said. publication by Babe.net A conservative analyst, of an account by a woman Carrie Lukas of the Inde- identified only as “Grace” pendent Women’s Forum, detailing her 2017 encoun- said Ansari “believed that ter with comedian Aziz An- everything that occurred sari. The article intimat- with his accuser was con- ed that Ansari deserved sensual and welcomed.” inclusion in the ranks of “His reputation is now abusive perpetrators, yet in tatters,” Lukas wrote many readers — women in an email. “Is that really and men — concluded the fair?” encounter amounted to an Online and in person, all-too-common instance many women are talking of bad sex during a date about experiences compa- gone awry. rable to Grace’s account Ansari has said he apol- — encounters with men ogized immediately after who initially seemed won- the woman told him about derful, but turned pushy, her discomfort during an if not criminally abusive, Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff encounter he believed to when things became sex- Julian Gardner, 11, hunts for Pokémon near Brickerton in Columbus Thursday afternoon. “When I turn 12, I’m going to be a YouTuber and I’ll be playing games I like. My mom is my manager and my videographer. I like be consensual. ual. 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