Suspect in officer-involved shooting released due to 'clerical error'

A man charged with capital murder after a shootout with a Jackson police officer was released from the Hinds County jail due to a clerical error.

Hinds County Sheriff's Dept. officials said Chauncy Correll Reed was let go late Thursday night. Hinds County deputies, Jackson police, and U.S. Marshals took him back into custody hours later.

Reed was booked into the Madison County Detention Center instead of being returned to the jail in Raymond. Chauncy Reed, 26, and his brother Elliott Reed, 30, are accused of being involved in an altercation with a Jackson Police Dept. officer on Wednesday morning that ended in gunfire. Elliott Reed was killed.

JPD said the officer pulled the brothers over in their white SUV in a traffic stop. Surveillance video at a gas station shows that at some point a physical altercation began. At least one of the suspects retrieves a rifle from the SUV and shots are fired. The investigation into the shooting is being conducted by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations. 

The Hinds County Detention Command Staff is reviewing the process and will make corrections to prevent a reoccurrence of this kind of mistake, a news release said.

Reed is being held without bond.