BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss — A teen from Pass Christian Mississippi faces homicide charges after a shooting in Bay St. Louis killed two teens and injured four other people.
The Bay St. Louis Police Department says officers responded to a call of a shooting at about 12:34 a.m. Sunday at a house in the 1000 block of Old Blue Meadow Road.
“Upon arrival, multiple persons were found suffering from gunshot wounds, and others were transported to area hospitals by private vehicles prior to officers’ arrival. The names of the victims will not be released at this time, but they are between the ages of 15 and 18,” Bay St. Louis Police Chief Toby Schwartz said in a released statement.
The Sun Herald reports the shooting happened during a high school house party. The paper identified the victims as De'Arreis "DD" Smith, 18, who was a senior at Hancock County High School, and Haeleigh Stamper, 16, who was also a Hancock High student.
Police arrested 19-year-old Cameron Everett Brand as the lone gunman in the shooting. Police found him at his home in Pass Christian soon after the shooting.
Brand is being charged with four counts of aggravated assault and two counts of murder. He is being held without bond on the murder charges, according to The Sun Herald.
Police in Bay St. Louis say four of the six victims were transported via ambulance and Life Flight ambulance to the trauma center in New Orleans and Slidell.
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