Alcorn County Probes Reported Fake Traffic Stop, Assault on Highway 72

Overview

• A Life360 crash detection at about 6:30 a.m. flagged Highway 72 at County Road 605, but responding deputies found no vehicle.
• About 30 minutes later, deputies were called to Magnolia Hospital, where a woman reported being stopped by an unknown vehicle displaying a blue dashboard light.
• She told investigators a white man in a dark T-shirt asked for her license, then struck her in the head with an object, causing her to lose consciousness.
• The woman said she later drove herself to the hospital from her silver Cadillac XT5, and authorities have not released her condition.
• The sheriff’s office reports no arrests or suspect identification and is focusing on witness accounts from drivers in the area that morning.