A newly-recruited Meridian police officer has died in Kemper County.

Sheriff James Moore says they found a 21-year-old man dead in his car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 7:30 Saturday morning. The Meridian Police Department confirms that man was Officer Quentin Pollock. He had only recently joined the force. Capt. John Griffith posted on the MPD's Facebook that Pollock's fellow officers are heart-broken at the loss.