PANOLA COUNTY, Miss. (WREG) — A family is mourning after a teenager was shot and killed at a block party in Panola County early Sunday morning.

According to the Panola County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were in the process of shutting down a block party in the 1700 block of Shiloh Road in Courtland with “several hundred, if not over a thousand,” people there when multiple shots were fired by several unknown suspects.

According to witnesses, hundreds of shots rang out. One witness told WREG, “You could literally hear bullets coming through the trees.”

When it was over, 18-year-old Jordan Henderson had been shot and killed. The Panola County Sheriff’s Office said another person was wounded. Another person was also injured by a vehicle fleeing the scene.

“People were calling me on my phone saying ‘Ms. Sharon, Jordan got shot.’ I said ‘We are on our way. Where is he at?'” said Sharon Henderson, the victim’s grandmother.

Ms. Henderson said when she spoke to law enforcement they told her there was security at the party.

“He said he had two police at the site when he was finna go tell them to cut it out because neighbors were complaining that is when the shooting started,” Henderson said.

However, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Monday that they do not provide security for private events.

Henderson said her grandson had just graduated from South Panola High School and was looking forward to college.

“He told another friend or cousin, he said I’m finna go up here and see the rappers and that’s when they started shooting everybody just broke out running and I guess he just got hit,” she said. “He was working, looking forward to starting school next fall, and he was a quiet person. He used to play football. He played the drums at church. He was saved.”

Henderson said this after losing another loved one to gun violence.

“A gun don’t make you a man,” she said.

The family is setting up a GoFundMe page to help with funeral arrangements. When it’s available, we will link it to this story.

The Panola County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information that could help detectives to call CrimeStoppers at 662-209-2011.