WINONA — A man is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly assaulting three law enforcement officers and stealing a deputy’s patrol cruiser — all while naked.
William Shawn Mann, 27, who has been reported as being from both Yazoo City and Dragoon, Arizona, is charged with three counts of simple assault on law enforcement, grand larceny, attempted grand larceny and felony malicious mischief.
Bond for Mann was set at $200,000 on Tuesday. As of Wednesday, he remained at the Carroll Montgomery Regional Correctional Facility in Vaiden.
Blood tests showed Mann had cocaine, marijuana and meth in his system. He was out on bond in Yazoo County for a charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon. He has served time in jail for a drug conviction. He was visiting relatives in Winona.
Law enforcement officers were sent to the parking lot of Tyler Holmes Memorial Hospital in Winona shortly after midnight Sunday after someone reported a vehicle “doing doughnuts,” Montgomery County Deputy Roshaun Daniels testified at a hearing Tuesday.
Daniels said he was first on the scene, followed by Winona Police Department Lt. Ickret Bennett and Mississippi Highway Patrol Troopers Josh McBride and Jeff Watson.
The officers found an abandoned vehicle at the intersection of Tyler Holmes Drive and Alberta Road. The vehicle had crashed into a traffic sign. Officers also found discarded clothing in the hospital parking lot.
“A lady came down the street and said there was a man on Middleton Road trying to stop vehicles — trying to open doors,” Daniels said.
Daniels said he found a male, whom he identified as Mann, wearing no clothing, in the middle of the street. Daniels said when he approached with his blue lights on, Mann jumped on the hood of his patrol car and then climbed on the roof.
“I put the vehicle in park and got out,” Daniels said. “(Mann) jumped on my back and began punching and kicking me. I wrestled with him and tried to get him on the ground.”
Mann was so uncontrollable that Daniels said he was forced to use his stun gun, but it had no effect. Daniels said he again tried to get him on the ground just as McBride and Watson arrived.
“Watson even hit him in the chest with the Taser, but he just pulled the prongs out like they did nothing,” Daniels said.
Somehow, Mann got into Daniels’ patrol car and drove off.
“He threw it into drive,” Daniels said. “(Trooper) McBride was slung out of the car.”
Daniels said Mann crashed through several signs before crashing the car into the Winona Dry Cleaners sign on U.S. 51.
“There were people washing a boat at the car wash,” Daniels said. “They ran toward (the car) because they thought it was me that crashed, and when they saw that it wasn’t a deputy that got out of the car, they scattered.”
Daniels said Mann attempted to steal their truck from the car wash. Before he could escape, he was subdued and arrested by the deputy and the two troopers.
Mann was taken to Tyler Holmes Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries suffered in the accident.
“He fought the whole time we took him to the hospital,” Montgomery County Sheriff Bubba Nix told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
The deputy and troopers were not injured, but Nix said this is another example of how officers often have no idea what to expect when they’re dispatched to a scene.
“People don't realize what law enforcement goes through from call to call,” he said.
