Man arrested for West Point shooting

WEST POINT • A Clay County man has been arrested in connection with a West Point shooting that sent a man to a Tupelo hospital in early October.

West Point police say Branden Stevenson, 18, was arrested in connection with an Oct. 11 shooting. Stevenson was booked into the Clay County Jail on Nov. 9 around 3 p.m.. He is being held in lieu of a $100,000 bond.

According to West Point detective Ramirez Ivy, the shooting occurred at approximately 7 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, on Grove Street. The male victim was airlifted to the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo and was listed in stable condition days after the shooting.

The shooting capped a string of shootings throughout the city that started Saturday afternoon and continued into Sunday morning. Police said the gun violence started on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 10, when someone fired shots at a house on South Division Street and continued around 2:30 a.m. on Meadowbrook Circle, where a residence was hit multiple times by gunfire. Another shooting around 6:30 a.m. hit a house on High Street.

During those three incidents, only property was damage. No people were injured. That changed just 30 minutes later on Grove Street.

Officials say more arrests are expected in connection with the shootings.

Anyone with information about the rash of gun violence is asked to call the West Point Police Department at (662) 494-1244 or the Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers at (800) 530-7151.