Authorities are investigating two separate fatal shootings that occurred in McComb and Centreville on Saturday night.
McComb police Detective Josh Brown said that around 11, officers received a call from security guards at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center who reported a shooting victim had arrived at the hospital.
When authorities arrived at the hospital, security officers told them that Jabories Leggett, 22, 120 Gillis Circle, came to the emergency room by private vehicle. He was later pronounced dead from a small-caliber gunshot wound to the chest.
Brown said authorities are unable to determine whether the shooting, which took place at Community Parks Apartments, was accidental or a homicide.
When officers spoke to witnesses, they were told that Leggett and his friend, Edward Jenkins, 22, were playing around with a gun before it discharged.
Jenkins remained in the Pike County jail this morning held without bond on charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
In the other case, a Centreville man is dead from what appears to be a single gunshot wound, Police Chief Jimmy Ray Reese said this morning.
He said officers responded to a call just after 7 p.m. Saturday, where they found Shawn Robinson, 35, of 322 W. Cherokee St., Centreville, wounded in his home.
Robinson went to Field Health System in Centreville, where he was pronounced dead.
Reese said Robinson’s family was at home when the shot was fired and called authorities.
He said that when officers arrived, the shooting suspect, Jivonta Jarrod Anderson, 21, 402 Fort St. Centreville, was not on scene.
Anderson later turned himself in to Gloster police, who handed him over to Centreville police.
Anderson was still being held by police this morning, but Reese declined to release his information and charges.
The police chief also would not give details on the events leading up to the shooting or where on his body Robinson was shot.
Reese said the shooting appears to be intentional.
