*IN THE LINE OF DUTY* OFFICER DOWN

[HairOfTheDog]

RIP Officer Gale Stauffer, Tupelo, Mississippi

Stauffer was a married combat veteran of the Louisiana Army National Guard, and he had served with the Tupelo Mississippi Police Department for eight years. He was shot and killed while responding to a bank robbery in process.

His partner was shot and wounded; police report that he's getting better, slowly, and his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious.

There's was a $152,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the bank robber(s). Police were unsure whether there was one or more suspects involved.

After reviewing bank surveillance video from the robbery of a BancorpSouth bank in Tupelo, authorities were looking for a thin, possibly African-American man with a light complexion, standing between 5-feet-9 and 6-feet tall, according to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.

Today, police shot and killed a suspect at the Phoenix airport. They believe he is Stauffer's killer (confirmation underway).