CLARKSDALE, Miss. — On Wednesday, the Clarksdale Police Department arrested Anthony Edtrel Giles for the murder of two men outside of a local nightspot.
Police told WREG they received the call to Club Deuce 2 shortly after 1 a.m. on April 2 .
When they arrived, they found 32-year-old JC Miller dead in the parking lot and 29-year-old Anthony Stevenson behind the building.
Stevenson later died at the hospital.
Giles’ bond was set at $1.5 million.
WREG covered the story and people we spoke with said they were sick and tired of all the crime.
“It don’t escape nobody. My house was broken into three nights ago,” said Clarksdale resident Trill Fildz.
He said believed the violence that ended two lives outside Club Duece 2 on North State Street would impact generations to come.
“Because we got kids that grow up here. You know what I mean? I’m pretty sure that the victims that was killed last night, they have kids. So, what do you say to their kids?” said Fildz.
The following morning there was nothing to indicate anyone had been shot at Club Duece 2, where a sign proclaimed “Come in Peace or Leave with the Police.”
In fact, truck driver Charles Davis didn’t know about the shootings till he picked up his “rig” just a few feet from the club’s parking lot.
“I didn’t find out it was on this intersection till this morning when I got to work. But you know it happens all the time. I wish it didn’t,” said Davis.
He delivered fuel in Coahoma County and said he parks his truck in a lot near the club.
He told reporters his truck got the worst of a fight here a couple of years ago.
“I guess a couple of guys that got into a fight out here and shot each other. And I come to work the next morning, and there was a bullet indention in the door of my truck,” said Charles Davis.
Police were looking into whether or not the shootings were gang related.
Regardless, Fildz said ending violent crime in Clarksdale is everyone’s responsibility.
“I mean Black, White, Puerto Rican, Mexican, whatever. We’re going to have to come together as a community,” said Fildz.
