A Greenwood man was killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting on Main Street - one of three drive-by shootings in the city that day but the only fatality.
Earnest Edwards, 26, whose address was not available today, was shot in the 1600 block of Main Street shortly before 1:30 p.m., Police Chief Henry Harris said. Edwards died from his wounds on the way to University Medical Center in Jackson, the chief said.
Edwards' death is the city's first homicide of 2007, Harris said. The chief declined to say whether the shootings were related.
The chief said the police have a firm suspect in the case but the suspect has not been apprehended.
The second incident happened at 5:50 p.m. near McLaurin Park and Roosevelt, where Santana Summerville, 27, and Derrick Bedell, 21, received minor, non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, the chief said.
Summerville was shot in the leg, and Bedell was shot in the hand. Both were taken by private car to Greenwood Leflore Hospital, where they were treated and released.
Police were given a description of the car involved in the shooting by witnesses, and the car was later spotted and pulled over on U.S. 82 by police.
A suspect, Tarvison Kinds, 22, of 305 N. Stone St., was arrested and charged with two counts of drive-by shooting in connection with the McLaurin shootings.
Kinds and another suspect - Demetrius Clay, 17, of 713 Martin Luther King Drive, Itta Bena - were being held in Leflore County Jail this morning. Clay will be charged as an adult.
Harris said the third shooting happened shortly after 9 p.m. at the intersection of Broad Street and Avenue I. Tremaine Butts, 19, was shot in the back.
Harris said Butts was taken to Greenwood Leflore Hospital. A condition report could not be obtained this morning.
The chief said the police have a suspect in the wounding of Butts but that suspect had not been apprehended.
