Three more Greenwood residents have been killed in shootings since early Friday morning, when a 19-year-old woman died after being shot Thursday night.
Three people were shot, two fatally, around 11:30 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Main and McGehee streets, near Crosstown Grocery, Leflore County Coroner Debra Sanders said. Two Greenwood men — Marlon Edwards, 42, and Leroye Watkins, 39 — later died, each from a single gunshot wound.
Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene, said Sanders, who said she arrived there around 12:07 a.m. Sunday.
Watkins was taken to Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s emergency room, where he died around 12:43 a.m. Sunday, Sanders said.
Information on the third victim, whose wounds were not fatal, was unavailable.
On Friday, Greenwood resident Robert Love was shot and killed sometime before 5 p.m. in the 300 block of Broad Street. Sanders said Love, who was about 38, died from multiple gunshot wounds at the scene.
Those three homicides in Greenwood followed the death of 19-year-old Samone Harris.
Harris, an Itta Bena resident, was attending a graduation party Thursday night at the Confederate Memorial Building on Henderson Street when she was shot. She was taken to the Greenwood hospital and died there a little before 1 a.m. Friday.
On Friday evening, the police arrested and charged a 21-year-old Greenwood man, Eaven B. Troutman, 3007 McKennedy Drive, with murder, but it could not be immediately determined what slaying he is alleged to have committed.
Troutman, whose bond was set at $1 million, remained in the Leflore County Jail as of Monday morning.
It is also unclear if there is any connection between the three most recent fatal shooting incidents.
Neither Deputy Police Chief Marvin Hammond nor Chief Terrence Craft could be immediately reached Monday morning.
According to Commonwealth reporting, there have been nine homicides in the county this year, including five in Greenwood, and all involved guns.
At this time last year, seven homicides had occurred in the county, including four in Greenwood.
The Greenwood City Council will hold a special called meeting at 4 p.m. Monday at City Hall regarding the gun violence, said Ronnie Stevenson, the council president.
- Contact Gerard Edic at 581-7239 or gedic@gwcommonwealth.com.
