Sheriff's deputy, umpire arrested after brawl at kids' baseball tournament in Mississippi
Darrell Holley, a lieutenant with the Okitibbeha County Sheriff's Office, was fired by the office on Monday.
A little league baseball tournament in Starkville, Mississippi took a turn on Sunday, as a coach started a fistfight with an umpire. Darrell Holley, a lieutenant with the Okitibbeha County Sheriff's Office and a coach of a Starkville under-14 team, got into a brawl with umpire Jeff Akins after a Grand Slam baseball tournament . The fight started shortly after the end of the third game of the day, which SPC Select 14U, the team that Holley coaches, lost 13-5.
Video of the altercation shows Holley appear to elbow Akins near the pitchers’ mound, leading Akins to retaliate with a push before the two began punching each other. Holley’s son also got involved in the fight, per the Commercial Dispatch . Both men were arrested and charged with misdemeanor fighting, per Starkville police .
A coach and umpire were arrested and charged with misdemeanors following a physical altercation at a 14U baseball game. The player involved is the coach's son The coach is also a deputy with the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi pic. twitter.
com/KaMtDJHxVg — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 4, 2026 Holley has since been terminated by the sheriff’s office, according to a statement shared with local station WCBI . Sheriff Shank Phelps cited a zero-tolerance policy for Holley’s conduct in the statement. In a statement to the Commercial Dispatch, tournament director Mike Narmour said that there was “no place for” that kind of fighting.