Police still investigating shooting death
Published 8:26 pm Thursday, August 30, 2018
Vicksburg police are continuing their investigation into the shooting death of a Vicksburg woman who was killed Aug. 22 at her home at 314 Lake Hill Drive.
Lt. Johnnie Edwards said Jasmine Nicole Adams, 25, died from her injury at Merit Health River Region, where she was taken by ambulance. Her death was the eighth homicide in the city this year.
Adams’ funeral is Saturday at 2 p.m. at Greater Grove Street MB Church.
Police were called to Adams’ home on Lake Hill Drive about 1:45 a.m. Aug. 22 about a possible home invasion and found her lying by the back door in a room adjacent to the carport of the home with an apparent single gunshot wound to the head.
According to police reports, witnesses said Adams, her boyfriend and another person were in the house when someone knocked on the carport door claiming to be the police. Adams’ boyfriend ran down the hall to another room and Adams went to answer the door.
The person on the other side of the door kicked the door twice, kicking it in on the second try. As soon as the door opened, the person opened fire, with one bullet hitting Adams. Nobody entered the house from outside.
In other cases:
• Elizabeth Somerville, 37, 519 Rigby St., was arrested Wednesday on a charge of possession of methamphetamine. She has a hold placed on her by the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Vicksburg police made the following misdemeanor arrests Thursday:
• Bernard Hodge, 26, 125 Debra Drive, was arrested about 1:53 a.m. in the 2700 block of alcorn Drive on a charge of disorderly conduct.
• Jason Bradley Hoben, 32, 97 Piney Woods Drive, was arrested about 8 a.m. in the 2600 block of Clay Street on a charge of receiving stolen property.
• Sherrica Evette Johnson, 35, 2306 Letitia St., was arrested about 8:15 a.m. at the Vicksburg Police Department on two counts of contempt of court.
• Micheal Darren Barnes, 42, 3148 Fisher Ferry Road, Utica, was arrested at the police department on a charge of contempt of court.
• A warrant was served on Amanda Lee Harris, 4 Summit Ridge Drive.