6-hour standoff ends with officer dead

Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss.

Law-enforcement officers in northeastern Mississippi stormed a house Saturday after an hours-long standoff with a gunman holed up inside, leading to a shootout that left one officer dead and three others wounded, authorities said.

The man suspected of firing on the officers also was killed.

The standoff started Friday afternoon when authorities responded to a domestic-dispute call at the home near Iuka, a small town in rural Mississippi, authorities said.

Killed were James Lee Tartt, 44, who was a Mississippi narcotics agent, and suspected gunman Charles Lee Lambert, who was 45.

Three other officers who entered the home were wounded, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain.