Greenwood police officers and Leflore County Sheriff’s deputies surrounded Greenwood Leflore Hospital this evening after a false report of a shooting and an active shooter at the hospital.
“There is not an active shooter at the hospital,” Mayor Carolyn McAdams told the Commonwealth by telephone.
Greenwood Police Chief Ray Moore said the rumors of a shooting inside the hospital began after a shooting earlier in the day at the corner of McLaurin and Roosevelt streets. A woman was shot in the back and a man was shot in the face.
The shooting victims’ names and conditions were not immediately available.
Moore said the two were taken to the Greenwood Leflore Hospital emergency room. Moore said he then received a call from police headquarters saying that there had been a shooting at the hospital and the shooter was still there.
Moore said those reports were false.
The chief said that three people had been taken into custody in connection with the shooting and that police were searching for two more.
Officers responding to the report temporarily blocked the entrances to the hospital parking lot. Heavily armed officers were seen on patrol outside the hospital’s emergency room.
Police also had to do crowd control as a large group of people from the neighborhood and inside the hospital gathered at the scene.
Officers stopped and searched a yellow Camaro driven by an unidentified woman as she tried to leave the parking lot. After the search, the woman was allowed to leave.
Most of the police officers gathered at the hospital left around 7 p.m.
For more details, see Thursday’s Commonwealth.
