Police are still searching for multiple suspects in a drive-by shooting that left two people wounded and led to high-speed chase and manhunt Thursday afternoon.
Shots were reported around 3:45 at the Twin Pines apartments on 26th Street in McComb, where as many as five suspects then fled from police in a black Ford Fusion.
The chase proceeded up Interstate 55 and ended in Summit, where the suspects pulled into a driveway on Pecan Street, which is a dead end street, then fled into the nearby woods.
McComb and Summit police, Pike County sheriff's deputies, and other agencies set up a perimeter around nearby woods and tried tracking them with drones and search dogs.
McComb Police Chief Juan Cloy said police were still seeking the suspects on Friday morning.
“One of our policemen thought he might have seen one of the suspects in Walmart that evening,” Cloy said. “We went in and searched the store, but didn’t find anyone who was a threat.”
A couple of hours later, police were engaged in a pursuit that went from Highway 570 east to River Road South, Highway 44 and West Topisaw Road, but Chief Cloy said the two incidents were unrelated.
Injuries from the shooting were reportedly not serious and both victims have been released from the hospital, Cloy said.
Cloy did not release the names of the suspects or the victims.
