JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi state Sen. Chris Massey was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated assault after a fight in a subdivision, police said.
Olive Branch police Chief Don Gammage told The Associated Press that Massey, who’s a homebuilder, is accused of hurting another person with some sort of a weapon — not a gun.
Gammage said police responded to a call about the fight in the Windstone subdivision just before 11 a.m. Thursday and arrested Massey, the senator’s father and two other men.
Olive Branch is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, and the upscale subdivision is just south of the state line.
A judge set a $10,000 bond for the 44-year-old Massey, and the chief said it was too soon to know whether Massey is represented by an attorney. Massey was still being processed in the jail as Gammage spoke to AP.
A call to Massey’s cellphone was not immediately answered. The Republican from Nesbit has been a senator since 2012, and his district is entirely in DeSoto County. He is chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.
The arrest was first reported by WREG-TV in Memphis.
