Two separate, and apparently unrelated, shootings occurred in Selma over the weekend, leaving two injured with one of the victims remaining in critical condition.

On Saturday night, Johnny Earl Brown was shot four times after the shooter, or shooters, fired shots into his house on St. Anne Street. After being shot, Brown ran for help to a residence on Marie Foster Street and called 911.

“We don’t know what the shooting was about because we didn’t have a chance to talk with [Brown]. He went right on in to surgery and he is still in ICU, so as soon as he gets better, we will talk with him and hopefully he can let us know something,” said Selma Police Department Lieutenant Johnny King.

Then at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, Otto Jones was shot in the shoulder as he stood outside in Valley Creek Apartments on Dallas Avenue, but authorities have a suspect in that case.

“This young black male in his early thirties was standing outside and some guy came up and shot him once in his shoulder,” King said. “We think this stemmed from revenge of an earlier shooting from several months back.”

King said he believes, due to the relationship the victim had with others involved in a previous shooting, this could have been retaliation, and that led police to identify a suspect in the case.

Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said he had information that the shooting in Valley Creek was gang related and possibly connected with a gang known as the “Brickyard” gang, but King said he could not confirm Jackson’s information.