Five year old shot in drive by

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Sleeping 5-Year-Old Shot in Home

The Jackson Police Department is investigating an overnight shooting that has left a five-year-old boy critically injured. WLBT learned Tuesday afternoon that surgeons had to amputate D'Anthony Roby's left arm. Police say they need your help in finding the shooter.

Officers say on Tuesday at 12:40 a.m. Roby was reportedly sleeping with his mother when several shots were fired into his home at 1015 Larkspur Street.

"Detectives
elieve someone pulled up in a vehicle, opened fire on the house, shot several times into the house, striking the child in the arm and then speeding away," said Jackson Police spokesman Robert Graham.
<b
r>Graham says four or five other people were in the home, including 21- year-old Lurenza Clincy of Jackson
, one of two people shot on February 5, 2003 at Captain D's Seafood Restaurant on West Woodrow Wilson Drive. Graham also says Clincy has been arrested at least once for receiving stolen goods. Graham is not saying whether Clincy's past has anything to do with the early morning shooting.

"Detectives are looking at all aspects of the case," said Graham. "They really have very little information as to a motive."

"Every time shots are being fired, it's normally the same house," said Kevin Robinson who also lives on Larkspur Street.

Robinson says something tragic was bound to happen in his neighborhood.

"I'm n
ot surprised. I'm always calling JPD," said Robinson. "Every time you turn around, shots are being fired, and they haven't done anything apparent."

Robinson and his
nei
ghbors are
hoping someone is quickly caught before there's another victim like five-year-old D'Anthony Robey.

If you have any information on this shooting, call the Jackson Police Departmen
t's Robbery-Homicide Division at 960-1308 or call Crimestoppers at 355-TIPS.

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Such is life in negrotown where everyday is a holiday and every meal a feast.

T.N.B.

 

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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House where boy shot raided

Police raided the house where a 5-year-old boy was shot Tuesday, arresting the child's mother and five other people, authorities said.

Officers, acting on a tip, seized 7 pounds of marijuana, a rifle and a 9 mm handgun, Jackson police spokesman Robert Graham said.

Among those arrested Wednesday was Mona Clincy, whose son, D'Anthony Roby, had his left arm amputated after he was shot in a drive-by shooting at the family's house at 1015 Larkspur St.

After officers arrived, they "spotted drugs in the front seat of the park
d car," Graham said. "That's when they issued a search warrant for the house."

Lorenzo Sutton, 24, of Jackson was charged with possession of cocaine.

Robert Spir

es,
24; Lurenza Clincy, 21; and Emma Bernard, 23; all of Jackson, were charged
with possession of marijuana.

Mona Clincy, 23, and Louise Dunlap, 23, both were charged with disorderly conduct.

D'Anthony, a Johnson Elementary prekindergarten student, was in intensive care late Wednesday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is expected to undergo surgery today, said his grandmother, Belinda Clincy.

"They are trying to keep him stable and keep his arm from bleeding," she said Wednesday.

Belinda Clincy has said she did not know why anyone would want to hurt a child or shoot into her home. "We haven't bothered anyone," she said Tuesday. "This is not a drug house. My daughter, son and I all work."

Lurenza Clincy, D'Anthony's uncle, was one of two people shot Feb. 6, 2003, when a vehicle in which Clincy and David Weston, 16, were riding was hit with a barrage of bullets in the take-ou
t li
ne at Capta
in D's Seafood Restaurant at 235 West Woodrow Wilson Drive.

Allen Sims and Frederick Hemphill III are expected to stand tri
al in either May or June in the Captain D's shooting on charges of shooting into a vehicle and two counts of aggravated assault.

Authorities said they do not know if the Captain D's shooting and the shooting on Tuesday are related.

"We don't know anything besides what is being said in newspapers and on television," said Assistant Hinds County District Attorney Rebecca Wooten, who is prosecuting the Captain D's shootings.

Wooten would not say if Lurenza Clincy is expected to testify against Sims and Hemphill, but "victims of aggravated assault normally do testify in cases like this."

Hemphill is being h
eld at the Hinds County Detention Center without bond. Sims is being held at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.

At Johnson Elementary School, D'Anthony's classmates,
faculty
and staff were sti
ll coping with Tuesday's shooting. D'Anthony's cousin, Rosie Dunlap, 8, and uncles, Tar Baris Peterson, 9, and Tim Peterson, 8, also attend Johnson Elementary.

"This mornin
g started a little rocky. We had numerous students asking why this happened," Principal Hattie McLin-Bronson said Wednesday.

"This was a bad time for this to happen but, at the same time, we're doing what we can to stay strong and come together as family," she said.

Cynthia Odum, D'Anthony's teacher, said counselors were talking to students. "They're answering any questions coming from the students," she said.

Odum said most of her students want to know what happened to D'Anthony's arm.

"I've had to explain to them
about the surgery and that his arm will probably be replaced with a new one," she said. "He'll be fine. It's just going to take some practice, because he is left-han
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T.N.B.