Staff Reports

Police have arrested a man and charged him in connection with a Sunday night shooting that left one dead and another wounded.

Around 10:44 p.m., Shreveport Police police responded to a report of shots being fired in the 4900 block of Mansfield Road. Patrolmen found two men in the parking lot of the Liquor Store located at 4914 Mansfield Road, one with at least one gunshot wound to the upper body and the other suffering from a gunshot wound to the hand.

The victim with upper body wounds was pronounced deceased at the scene and the other was transported to University Health by the Shreveport Fire Department with a non-life-threatening injury. The names of the victims are not being released at this time pending notification of their families.

Detectives learned the dead victim, believed to be an employee of the Liquor Store, was apparently involved in some sort of altercation with another man. During the course of the dispute, the victim allegedly produced a firearm and so did the killer.

Multiple shots were fired, at least one of which struck the victim. The other victim, also an employee of the business, was wounded at that time. The killer fled the scene of the crime in a vehicle. Crime scene investigators subsequently recovered multiple shell casings from different weapons on the parking lot there.

Investigators identified 36-year-old Jertorrez Harris as the suspect. Authorities contacted Harris and he surrendered to them without incident.

Harris, of the 1500 block of Doris Street in Shreveport, was booked into the Shreveport City Jail on one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Police have seized two firearms and believe others not yet located may have been involved in this shooting.

Harris' vehicle, damaged by gunfire, was also seized. The investigation remains active and anyone with any information regarding this shooting should immediately contact Shreveport-Caddo Parish Crime Stoppers at (318) 673-7373 or www.lockemup.org