Shooting suspect out of jail on $90,000 bond

Published 11:22 am Tuesday, March 6, 2012

A Vicksburg man arrested in a weekend county shooting that wounded an 18-year-old woman has been released from the Warren County Jail on a $90,000 bond.

Willie McCoy, 60, 100 Brister Road, posted the bond late Monday, after Warren County Justice Court Judge Edwin Woods set the amount during McCoy’s initial court appearance.

McCoy is charged with three counts of aggravated assault in a shooting Saturday afternoon at Sunrise Mart, 20 Freetown Road.

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The victim, Kayla Allen, 200 block of Lampkin Mountain Road, was shot in the abdomen and leg.

McCoy is accused of firing multiple shots with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun at Allen and her boyfriend as the two took cover with a store employee inside, formerly Pecan Ridge Shell.

A River Region Medical Center spokesman said this morning that Allen remained there in good condition.

Allen’s boyfriend and the employee were not wounded.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said the shooting at about 4:30 p.m. was the result of an ongoing argument between Allen and McCoy’s three granddaughters.

He said Allen and her boyfriend were leaving the store when McCoy and the girls drove up. The girls got out of the car and began arguing with Allen, who went back in the store with her boyfriend, and they then called 911.

McCoy and the girls drove off, but returned later, walked into the store, fired an undetermined number of shots and drove off, Pace said. McCoy was arrested at his home about 30 minutes later.