Mount Vernon man gunned down in Greene County, Mississippi

GREENE COUNTY, MS. (WALA) – A Mount Vernon man was gunned down in Mississippi whereas he was visiting his girlfriend final week.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Workplace says the sufferer, 22-year-old Logan Wainwright, was ambushed.

Deputies say Wainwright was shot a number of occasions whereas sitting in his automobile.

They are saying the shooter, Michael Anthony Holder, is within the hospital recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Investigators say it could possibly be weeks earlier than Holder is launched from the hospital.

In line with Chief Deputy Brad Warrick this all began when Holder went to his ex-wife’s residence not solely to shoot and kill Wainwright but additionally kill himself.

“It was mainly a lover’s quarrel or no matter on his half and I do suppose that’s the way it went down,” Warrick stated.

On Saturday, deputies had been referred to as out to a home on Previous Freeway 63. The caller saying {that a} man could possibly be lifeless.

As soon as deputies obtained there they discovered Wainwright within the entrance seat of his Dodge Challenger, shot a number of occasions.

“Man was deceased and it was a number of gunshot wounds,” Deputy Warrick stated. “A number of rounds had been fired contained in the car. I counted 27, 28 rounds via the hood and the windshield of the car.”

In line with investigators the home the place the capturing occurred is the place Holder’s ex-wife lives.

Deputy Warrick says Holder was hiding, ready on Wainwright and his girlfriend to drag up collectively to confront them with a loaded rifle.

“They pulled up within the yard, obtained out of the car, he come out from within her residence which was not their residence. It was her residence after the divorce,” Warrick defined. “And he or she confronted him and he began capturing. She bumped into the woods.”

Deputy Warrick says in the course of the capturing Holder additionally obtained right into a gun battle with the neighbor. The home-owner’s stepfather.

“Her father, truly her stepfather, heard the photographs and got here down there together with his gun. Apparently he took fireplace additionally from Mr. Holder. He did return some fireplace. We nonetheless suppose the gunshot wound is self inflicted,” he stated.

Wainwright, a Mount Vernon native, was a former youth coach in Citronelle.

His funeral is deliberate for subsequent Tuesday. The household is asking all donations go to Freemans’s Funeral House in Citronelle.

Deputy Warrick says Holder is in secure situation, closely sedated, at a hospital in Jackson.

The warrant for the cost of homicide shall be signed as soon as he’s launched.

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