Hero cop Jeremy Malone is gunned down by habitual criminal during a traffic stop in front of a Mississippi Dollar General store: Gunman killed by cops following a chase

George County Deputy Jeremy Malone, 44, was killed outside of a Dollar General on January 4The suspect, Ricky Powell, 43, shot Malone as he approached his vehicle before he fled the scenePowell was later shot and killed after he led authorities on a chase through two counties after the shooting  

A hero cop in Mississippi was shot and killed during a traffic stop outside a Dollar General by a man with a criminal history spanning three decades.

George County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Malone, 44,  was killed around 5:15pm on January 4 outside of a Dollar General on US Highway 98 near Lucedale.

The suspect, Ricky Powell, 43, shot Malone as he approached his vehicle before he fled the scene. Cops later chased Powell as he drove through Greene County and into Perry County before they shot and killed the convict.

Malone was a husband to his wife Hilary for 13 year and a father to three daughters.

‘He loved law enforcement, and he loved his wife and his girls. Our little county is devastated with the loss of Jeremy Malone. He will be missed, for sure,’ Terry Rogers, a warden at a jail in George County, who also knew Malone for 15 years told WVUA.

George County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Malone was a husband to his wife Hilary for 13 year and a father to three daughters

George County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Malone was a husband to his wife Hilary for 13 year and a father to three daughters

Malone, 44, was killed outside of a Mississippi Dollar General on US Highway 98 around 5.15pm in Lucedale on January 4

Malone, 44, was killed outside of a Mississippi Dollar General on US Highway 98 around 5.15pm in Lucedale on January 4

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case and the investigation is ongoing.

An outpour of support flooded social media as the small community mourned Malone’s sudden death.

George County Sheriff Mitchell Mixon said Malone was ‘larger than life’ and that he centered his life around his family and his career.

Malone previously served in multiple law enforcement agencies across the state, including the Leakesville Police Department and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

Beaumont Mayor Scotty Dailey who graduated alongside Malone at Perry Central High School in 1988 told WDAM: ‘If we played cops and robbers out on the playground, then we knew Jeremy was gonna be the cop because that was his whole life ambition, to be an officer.’

The suspect, Ricky Powell, 43, shot Malone as he approached his vehicle before he fled the scene. He had a lengthy criminal record

The suspect, Ricky Powell, 43, shot Malone as he approached his vehicle before he fled the scene. He had a lengthy criminal record

‘Mississippi will always remember Deputy Malone. Our state remains deeply thankful for all of our law enforcement officers who bravely place their lives on the line every day in defense of our communities,’ Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said in an executive order.

A GoFundMe page was created in honor of Officer Malone and has set out to raise money for his family. It has raised more than $44,000 as of Friday.

First responders across the state also reached out to the Tunnels to Towers Foundation to assist Malone’s family following his death.  The foundation, which has set out to help ‘America’s heroes by providing mortgage-free homes’ to the families of fallen first responders.

On Monday, the foundation announced that they paid off Malone’s home, which the family had just purchased, according to WXXV.

A foundation called Tunnels to Towers announced that they paid off Malone's home, which the family had just purchased

A foundation called Tunnels to Towers announced that they paid off Malone’s home, which the family had just purchased

Malone’s patrol car has also been placed outside of the George County Sheriff’s Office Memorial in honor of the fallen officer.

Funeral services for Malone will take place on Friday, with a procession to follow. He will then be buried at Tanners Cemetery in Halston.

‘I feel that incident speaks for who Jeremy Malone truly is. He was the most selfless kind hearted man I have met in law enforcement,’ Brandon Walley, an officer that worked alongside Malone said in a Facebook post.

‘It was truly a honor to get to share that moment with him and I know The George County Sheirffs Office will never be the same without him asking me every weekend where we was gonna set up.’

Malone previously served in multiple law enforcement agencies across the state, including the Leakesville Police Department and the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.

Malone previously served in multiple law enforcement agencies across the state, including the Leakesville Police Department and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

Malone's patrol car has also been placed outside of the George County Sheriff's Office Memorial in honor of the fallen officer

Malone’s patrol car has also been placed outside of the George County Sheriff’s Office Memorial in honor of the fallen officer

Powell has a criminal history dating back to the 1990s, according to Fox 10.

He was arrested in Mobile County, Alabama, in 1998 at 18 years old and charged with burglary. He pleaded guilty and received a five-year sentence. All but seven months was suspended.

He was arrested in the same county in 2007 on a charge of possession of marijuana. Powell never showed up for the court hearing and the case was later moved to an administrative docket.

Powell was also charged in Mississippi and served time in the penitentiary for auto burglary and forgery. It’s unclear how long he served and when exactly he was arrested on those charges.

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