PANOLA COUNTY, Miss. — Panola County investigators are learning more about what led up to a deadly double shooting in Courtland this week.
What started off as a fun cookout quickly turned into a very scary situation Tuesday evening.
Bernice Watson said she heard what she believed to be a Hummer pulling into her driveway, and then two men walked up with a gun.
She stumbled as someone shoved her inside to safety.
“Yeah, I heard the pops. I head the gun when it popped. It said boom,” she described.
When she came out, the two men were dead on her lawn.
Investigators and a K9 Officer returned to Watson’s home on Shiloh Wednesday.
So far, there have not been any arrests but the District Attorney John Champion said the victims definitely did not live at the home.
“We’ve got a pretty good idea right now what happened and why it happened. So, we’re going from that point forward,” he told WREG.
Champion said he was waiting on autopsy results to match them up with the witnesses’ stories.
In the meantime, Watson said she was trying to get back to life as usual in a home she thought was safe.
“I don’t like to run from nothing. Run from my own house? I’m not the type of person to run from my own home,” she said.
This is the same small town where 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was burned alive less than six months ago. Her murder has not been solved.
