[10/25/01]A threatening letter faxed Tuesday morning to a Vicksburg insurance office where a worker was shot later that day was “personal in nature,” Vicksburg Police Chief Tommy Moffett said this morning.

A Claiborne County woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon following the shooting at Direct General Insurance office, 1825 N. Frontage Road, and charged with sending the threatening letter, a misdemeanor charge, Moffett said. She was released the same day on bond.

Moffett would not disclose the contents of the letter and would not say if the woman arrested for sending the letter is a suspect in the shooting.

“She has not been charged with the shooting or the armed robbery,” Moffett said.

Police were called to Direct General at 11:55 a.m. Tuesday after a 911 call from a shop next door.

Zenobia Harris, 46, was admitted to ParkView Regional Medical Center shortly after noon Tuesday and was in stable condition there today, a hospital spokesman said.

Police have said the shooting occurred after a woman entered the insurance office, demanded money from Harris and shot her once in the chest and once in the arm with a handgun. An undisclosed amount of cash was reported taken and the woman left the strip of small offices and businesses in a silver or gray Oldsmobile with a Claiborne County license tag.

Moffett said that the weapon had not been recovered.