Investigators are trying to identify the drivers of three cars seen on surveillance tapes driving past state Sen. David Jordan’s home near the time of a shooting.
Police Chief Henry Purnell said they got a clear image from a security camera but are waiting for an ADT representative to show them how to operate the recorder system to get a picture of the faces of the drivers.
Jordan has a surveillance system set up at his Bowie Lane home.
Someone fired three shots into it between 11 p.m. and midnight Thursday.
Two bullets have been recovered — one from the trunk of Jordan’s wife’s Cadillac and one that went through a window into an inside wall. A third bullet ricocheted off an exterior brick wall and hasn’t been found.
Purnell said the bullets were most likely fired from a .38-caliber revolver although it could have been a .357.
Jordan, who also serves on the Greenwood City Council, said Saturday that he’s hopeful the video recording will yield results.
“I feel kind of good about this. I feel we will be able to identify something and find out who’s doing this and why,” he said.
According to Jordan, investigators will also interview attendees of a documentary screening at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity Thursday night to see if anyone heard anything that might tie into the shooting.
New York filmmakers, who are updating a 1966 NBC documentary about race in Greenwood and Mississippi, had interviewed Jordan for several hours at his home Thursday afternoon.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation are assisting Greenwood police. MBI officers visited the home Friday, and the FBI called several times, Jordan said.
• Contact Charlie Smith at csmith@gwcommonwealth.com.
