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.