STAND OFF PACKAGE - 11/6/20

STAND OFF PACKAGE - 11/6/20

"quiet, sweet little place like this that nothing like that could ever happen.

But that's wrong, it sure can."

Barbara james says she and her husband were just sitting down to dinner when their small sturgis home became the scene of an armed standoff.

The oktibbeha county sheriff's office say they the oktibbeha county sheriff's office say they and 10 other agencies were on the scene some time around 6 thursday night when their pursuit of 39-year-old suspect gary boyles of greenville ended with a crash after officers deployed spike strips in the path of the truck boyles was driving.

Su: the sheriffs department says the suspect was speeding down highway 12 when he turned off into this sturgis home's yard and crashed right into that pond.

While she did not want her face shown on camera, barbara was still willing to sit down with me and describe the harrowing scene she witnessed in her own backyard.

"we start hearing the sirens, lots her own backyard.

"we start hearing the sirens, lots and lots of them...i looked out and it was just oodles, tones of cop cars."

Barbara says officers had lights trained on boyles as he tried to stay afloat in the wreckage.

"i think he might have been standing on the back of that trailer and it started sinking and the water got up to his waste."

Then barbara says she saw boyles brandishing a gun.

"the more they tried to talk to him and lure him out, he would put the gun up under his chin and at one point, i could've swore he put it in his mouth but it looked like he put it in his mouth."

Eventually, she says she had to turn away.

"we were afraid.

I stopped looking, i was afraid, he was going to shoot his head off and that would be see ya."

Some time around midnight, crisis negotiators from the fbi and both starkville and tupelo pd convinced boyles to surrender.

"he was really groaning like he was hurting bad.

I don't know if he was hurt or standing in that water too long."

Boyles was taken to och regional medical center with non-life threatening injuries.

In sturgis, stephen pimpo, wcbi.

Boyles is currently in custody at the oktibbeha county jail awaiting arraignment.

The sheriff's office has not released any information on the charges boyles is facing at this time.