Two people shot in apparent drive-by near Clinton Blvd. Both victims are stable at UMMC Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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A VIOLENT NEW YEARS EVE... THE CITY OF JACKSON HIT WITH A COUPLE OF APPARENT DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS... MONDAY EVENING, AROUND 5:30, JACKSON POLICE SAY ONE OF THEM HAPPENED IN THE AREA OF CLINTON BOULEVARD, NEAR DEXTER DRIVE... POLICE SAY 2 VICTIMS, A MALE AND A FEMALE, SUFFER MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS AFTER AN UNKNOW SUSPECT FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS INTO THE VEHICLE THEY WERE IN POLICE SAY THEN THE MALE DRIVER DROVE FROM THIS LOCATION, DO TO WOODROW WILSON BOULEVARD...TRYIN G TO SEEK HELP THE VEHICLE ENDED UP AT THE 4 HUNDRED BLOCK OF WOODRW WILSON...SOME 3 MILE FROM THE INITIAL SHOOTING SCENE... OUR CAMERA SHOWS THE CONDITI SHOOTING SCENE... OUR CAMERA SHOWS THE CONDITION OF THE VICTIMS SUV... THE BACK WINDOW COMPLETELY SHOT OUT... IT ALSO APPEARS SEVERAL PASSENGER SIDE WINDOWS WERE SHATTERED... JACKSON POLICE SAY THE TWO VICTIMS ARE IN STABLE CONDITION, RECIEVING TREATMENT AT UMMC... NAT POP GUNFIRE ALSO RANG OUT TUESDAY MORNING, IN A SITUATION POLICE ARE CALLING A TARGETED SHOOTING... IN HAPPENED AROUND 10:30 AM, AT RUTLEDGE AVENUE AND MEDGAR EVERS BOULEVARD... A VEHICLE WITH FIVE OCCUPANTS WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND... POLICE SAY ANOTHER VEHICLE PULLED UP, AND BEGAN SHOOTING... INVESTIGATORS SAY AS MANY AS 13 SHOTS WE FIRED... IT'S NOT RANDOM...IT'S TARGETED...AND, 90 PERCENT OF THE TIMES, 95 PERCENT OF THE TIMES THE VICTIM KNEW THE UH, SUSPECT JPD SAYS 3 ADULTS WERE IN THE CAR...BU THE INJURED VICTIMS WERE A 1 YEAR OLD GIR STRUCK BY A BULLET IN THE BACK OF HER HEAD, AND A 13 YEAR OLD BOY WHO SUFFERED A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE RIGHT FOREARM... THE FORCE OF THE BULLET BROKE A BONE... THAT WAS VERY SHOCKING...TO SE HER RUN IN, HOLDIN' HER ONE- YEAR-OLD, SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD JUST BLEEDING EVERYWHERE THE BABY GIRL IS LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION...THE BOY IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER... POLICE SAY THEY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR TH SUSPECTED GUNMAN'S VEHICLE... A SILVER OR GOLD, OR POSSIBLY A TA A FORD EXPEDITION THEY SAY TWO MEN WERE INSIDE... IF YOU HAVE INFO, CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AT 601- 355-TIPS. TROY JOHNSON...16 WAPT NEWS AT 10 JPD SAYS IT IS CURRENTLY REVIEWIN

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