Update: One suspect in custody, second sought in Pascagoula shooting

PASCAGOULA -- Pascagoula police have arrested a woman and are looking for a second suspect in connection with a shooting in Pascagoula on Sunday night that sent two teenagers to the hospital.

Police believe a fight that started somewhere else, was posted on Facebook, and ended up on Robertson Avenue late Sunday, a block from two Pascagoula schools and the Union Baptist Church on Market Street.

About 11:15 p.m. Sunday night, Pascagoula police responded to a call of shots fired in the 2600 block of Robertson. En route to the scene, police learned a victim had been taken to Singing River Hospital emergency room by private vehicle.

Once on scene, they learned the victim was Brandon Eatrelle Davis, 19, of Pascagoula. Shortly after, Ocean Springs Hospital officials called police to say another gunshot victim was in their emergency room.

That victim was identified as Markis D. Wells, 18, of Gautier. He told hospital officials he had been shot on Robertson Avenue.

The short street is right off Dupont Street, a block west of Pascagoula High School and a block east of Central Elementary.

A school official said Pascagoula High was operating a regular school day Monday.

Both men suffered single gunshots and were taken to surgery for their injuries.

Erica Denise Ford, 37, who lives at the Robertson Street residence where the shooting occurred, was arrested in connection with the shooting of Wells. She has been charged with aggravated assault and is being held at the Jackson County jail awaiting an initial appearance before municipal Judge Michael Fondren.

Neighbors were concerned about the shooting.

Carlos Knowles, 43, standing outside Ford's house on Monday morning with a group of men, said, "It's a nice neighborhood. This sort of thing doesn't happen here."

He said he was raised on Robertson Avenue and his grandmother lives a block away.

"It's a shame that it happened," he said. "People here look out for each other's kids and get along."

The shooting happened in the street, and he said that at least one of the men shot didn't live on the street.

"This violence is spreading from neighborhood to neighborhood and from block to block and something needs to happen," Knowles said. "This fight was recorded in a park and wound up here."

Police spokesman Shannon Broom said, "this neighborhood has been quiet for quite a long time."

He said police are aware there was a previous fight somewhere else that was brought to the Robertson Avenue neighborhood and that the shooting may have been a retaliation to that fight.

However, he said, "someone involved in the shooting is tied to the house on Robertson."

Police are trying to identify a second suspect in the shooting of Davis. Anyone with information is asked to call Pascagoula police at 762-2211.

This story was originally published March 14, 2016 at 12:53 PM with the headline "Update: One suspect in custody, second sought in Pascagoula shooting ."