Two separate shootings in two days have claimed the lives of two young Greenwood men.
Valdemir Beverly, 22, was pronounced dead around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday at Greenwood Leflore Hospital, Leflore County Coroner Debra Sanders said.
Police Chief Jody Bradley said in an email that the shooting occurred at 312 Jackson St. but did not provide other details.
On Tuesday night, Jyquavious Williams, 21, was pronounced dead at the hospital at 10:34 p.m., Sanders said.
An hour before, police received a call about shots fired at Curtis Moore Apartments along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, according to Bradley.
Officers found two shooting victims: Williams and 23-year-old Juan Robinson. Williams lived at the apartment complex, according to Sanders, but it’s unclear whether Robinson lived there.
Both men were transported by a Pafford ambulance to the Greenwood hospital, where Williams died. Robinson was later taken to a hospital in Jackson, according to the police.
Williams’ death has stunned those who knew him, said Darius Yates, a childhood friend.
“Everybody’s just kind of hurt right now,” Yates said.
A 2017 graduate of Greenwood High who had participated in football, track and band, Williams was “a happy person” who “joked all day, every day,” Yates said.
On Facebook, Williams went by the nickname friends had called him, “Jock.”
“He always tried to be the bigger person in situations,” Yates said.
Also, friends and family remembered each of the men who died by posting messages on the victims’ Facebook profiles.
The deaths of Beverly and Williams increase Leflore County’s homicide count for 2020 to nine. All but one of the deaths have been from gun violence.
Curtis Moore Apartments also was the site of a shooting June 10 that led to the hospitalization of two victims. Kelvin Cooks, a 19-year-old Greenwood resident whose address was listed as Curtis Moore Apartments, was charged Monday with three counts of aggravated assault in that case.
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