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NATCHEZ — After two unrelated shooting incidents between Sunday and Monday, Adams County District Attorney Tim Cotton has said, “Enough is enough.”

He has called for his first press conference as a District Attorney to take place at 3 p.m. on the steps of Natchez City Hall to address his anger and frustration at the recent shootings.

“I am angry with the culture of what is going on in the community,” Cotton said. “What I saw yesterday has pushed me to the point I’m not happy. These heinous acts will not be tolerated.”

Cotton said the recent shootings, particularly the one that resulted in the death of 61-year-old James Mitchell, “needs to be addressed out in the open.”

Natchez Police Chief Cal Green said while it’s unusual to have back-to-back shootings, the two are unrelated.

The first shooting that happened at approximately 12:30 a.m. Sunday on St. Catherine Street in the vicinity of Holy Family Catholic Church injured a woman who was sitting in a parked car with a man. Two people reportedly walked up to the vehicle and shot into it, leaving the woman injured in her leg and buttocks. The man was uninjured.

Green said Tuesday morning that the woman was still in a Jackson hospital for treatment and that police are going there to interview her.

Another shooting happened Monday sometime before 2 p.m. at 841 Martin Luther King Jr. St. Mitchell received one fatal shot to the head on his screened-in porch. Police have still been unable to determine where the shot came from, whether it was from outside the home or inside, she said.

“We are working on trying to find leads and checking for houses that may have had camera footage,” Green said.

On Monday after the shooting, Green said police were unaware of anyone who might want to harm Mitchell.

“He was a quiet, happy person and didn’t have an issue with anyone that we knew of,” she said.

No suspects have been named in either of these cases as investigations are ongoing.