HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Three people were arrested in connection with the murder of two police officers -- one a rookie -- who were fatally shot Saturday evening during a traffic stop in the southern Mississippi city of Hattiesburg.
The incident prompted a statewide manhunt overnight, and led to a pair of brothers and a third suspect being arrested, authorities said.
The deaths of the officers are the first to hit the southern Mississippi city of Hattiesburg in three decades - and come amid a national debate on policing, race and the use of deadly force, following the recent killings of unarmed black men by police in Missouri, South Carolina and elsewhere.
The officers' deaths also follow by a day the funeral of a New York City officer who was shot in the head while stopping a man suspected of carrying a handgun.
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