Another Greenwood teenager has been arrested in an Aug. 2 shooting in a Leflore County subdivision that left a 15-year-old boy wounded.
Erick Wilson, 16, Carrollton Avenue, has been charged with drive-by shooting for his alleged role in the wounding of Dontavis McLemore, 15, in the Twin Lakes subdivision southeast of Greenwood. Wilson, who is being charged as an adult, remained in the Leflore County Jail this morning. Bond had been set at $25,000.
A second Greenwood teenager — Christopher Adams, 17, 421 Ave. H — was arrested Aug. 14 and is also facing one count of drive-by shooting. Adams has been freed on bond.
Adams and Wilson were allegedly among a group of “three or four” men in a vehicle that pulled up behind Dontavis he walked through the neighborhood, according to Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks. Banks said multiple shots were fired from a vehicle at Dontavis.
Adams’ cousin, Lamont Adams, 17, 713 Broad St., was also arrested, but the charges against Lamont have since been dropped. “We never could prove he was in the vehicle, and I’m not sure he was,” said Banks.
During the gunfire, Dontavis was hit once in the arm and was treated at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital before being released three days after the shooting.
According to Karmonita Williams and Madelyn Epps, two witnesses who live in the subdivision, Dontavis fled on foot after the shooting started before taking shelter behind a pickup truck in Epps’ carport as the gunman continued firing at him.
Dontavis was the second Leflore County 15-year-old to be shot this year. The shooting comes amid a slew of shooting in Greenwood and the surrounding area involving teenagers.
Fifteen-year-old Xavier Hunt, then an eighth-grader at Greenwood Middle School, was shot in the chest and seriously wounded May 4 in Broad Street Park.
This past weekend, a 4-year-old child was hit in the neck with a stray bullet during a shooting outside the Snowden-Jones Apartments off Main Street in Greenwood.
Three teenage suspects — aged 14, 15 and 16 — were initially detained in that shooting, though two have since been released. Greenwood Police Chief Ray Moore said he anticipated filing charges in that shooting later today.
Wilson was also joined this morning in the Leflore County Jail by another 17-year-old shooting suspect, Denaxius Brown, who faces three counts of aggravated assault after allegedly shooting into an occupied car during an argument Tuesday afternoon.
• Contact Bryn Stole at 581-7235 or bstole@gwcommonwealth.com.
