Detective, murder suspect dead after shooting in Miss. police station - CNN

• Jackson police detective was interviewing a murder suspect inside police HQ
• Detectives overheard gunshots, went into the room and found the suspect and detective dead
• Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is leading the probe into what happened

(CNN) -- A veteran detective and the murder suspect he was interviewing were killed Thursday, following an outburst of gunfire inside the Jackson, Mississippi, police headquarters.

The detective was talking with the suspect when an altercation broke out and shots were fired, Othor Cain, a spokesman for the Hinds County Sheriff's Department, told CNN.

Other law enforcement officers overheard the gunshots and rushed into the room, said a shaken Chris Mims, a spokesman for Mayor Harvey Johnson.

They found both people -- the Jackson police detective and the suspect, neither of whom was immediately named -- dead.

The incident occurred around 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET). One hour later, the situation was contained, according to Cain.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation to determine what happened, Mims said.

Jackson, a city of about 175,000 residents, is the capital of Mississippi.

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Suspect offers to plead guilty - Detroit Free Press

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Shooting at Marine base in Va.; suspect pinned down - CBS News

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. A person has been shot and a suspect is barricaded at Marine Base Quantico in Virginia, officials said.

The base was put in lockdown.

CBS Washington, D.C. affiliate WUSA-TV quotes First Lieutenant Augustin Solivan as saying the shooting occurred at about 11 p.m. Thursday.

The suspect, believed to be a Marine, shot another person on the main side of the base, near the Officer Candidate School, Solivan told WUSA.

The lockdown was announced across the base using the public address system, said a Marine on the installation. Families were told to stay in their homes.

Prince William County police and military police have the suspect pinned down, the station says.

There was no word on the victim's condition or identity.

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Sarkozy Named as Suspect in Campaign Finance Probe Over Heiress - Bloomberg

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was named as a formal suspect by judges probing claims he took advantage of billionaire Liliane Bettencourt’s mental frailty to access her fortune, Bordeaux prosecutors said.

Sarkozy’s being placed formally under investigation comes after months of questioning over whether he, his 2007 presidential campaign or his party got gifts from the L’Oreal SA (OR) heiress while she wasn’t mentally fit to make decisions, and whether Bettencourt, France’s richest woman, was manipulated.

Sarkozy lost his bid for re-election in May, lifting the immunity that accompanies the post of president in France. He is the second former president in France’s modern era to face criminal inquiries after leaving office. His predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was found guilty of corruption during his time as mayor of Paris prior to his term as president, receiving a suspended jail sentence in December 2011.

Sarkozy in November had been named a “material witness” by judges investigating the claims, a position placing him between being called to testify and being made a target of the matter. The announcement yesterday by Bordeaux prosecutors means that Sarkozy has become the focus of the investigation.

A call to Thierry Herzog, Sarkozy’s attorney, outside of regular business hours wasn’t answered. Herzog said he will appeal the ruling, according to France’s BFM TV.

Bettencourt’s former financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre, and Eric Woerth, the treasurer of Sarkozy’s party during the campaign and a former budget minister, have been charged in the case. Both men deny the allegations. De Maistre said in an interview in the Journal du Dimanche on Nov. 11 that he never gave money to either Woerth or Sarkozy.

More than a dozen people have been charged in the probes spawned by the affair, according to Agence France-Presse.

To contact the reporter on this story: Andrea Rothman in Toulouse at aerothman@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at bkammel@bloomberg.net

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