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SLAYDEN, Miss. — For the first time in nearly twenty years a Marshall County Sheriff’s Deputy has been shot in the line of duty.

Sheriff Kenny Dickerson said K9 Officer Cody Spoon was shot in the arm while responding to a domestic disturbance early this morning.

Dickerson said Mardamiyn Sellers was armed with a high-powered rifle when two deputies arrived at his home on Winding Creek Road just south of Slayden around midnight.

The sheriff’s said after the shooting Sellers barricaded himself inside his house for hours.

A Desoto County Sheriff’s tact team was able to shoot out the lights around Seller’s home and take him into custody as he tried to escape through a wooded area behind his house.

“I talked to him three or four times and his father talk to him three or four times and he wouldn’t listen. He would say he was coming out, but then he wouldn’t.  So, we did what we had to do, ” said Sheriff Dickerson.

The deputy who was shot had to undergo surgery on his arm, but is expected to be okay.

WREG confirmed Spoon will need more surgery.

Since the shooting involved a Marshall County deputy,  the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation will be investigating the shooting.

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