By Billy Davis

Funeral services were pending Thursday for Jeremy Wright, 23, who was shot Monday at a home in west Batesville.

Delta Burial in Marks is in charge of arrangements.

A spokesman for the funeral home said Wright passed away Wednesday at The Med in Memphis.

Wright was struck in the head in a hail of gunfire at 132 Vance Street just before noon. The investigation of the shooting is ongoing, authorities have said.

Local law enforcement has yet to cite a possible motive for Wright’s shooting or confirm if two other shootings into homes  — on Ridge Road Monday night and on Tubbs Road Tuesday night — were related to Monday’s shooting of Wright.

Batesville Police Chief Tony Jones confirmed late Thursday that a mobile home on Tubbs Road was shot “two or three times,” possibly by a rifle.

No one was hurt, he said.

“No one is saying anything,” Jones said of eyewitnesses to the mobile home shooting, which occurred Tuesday night at the southwest edge of Batesville’s city limits.

The Ridge Road shooting occurred Monday night.

Shots were fired into a mobile home but nobody was hurt, said sheriff’s investigator Barry Thompson.

Ridge Road is located in a mobile home park south of Batesville along Highway 51.

There is more to investigate, too. A pair of automobiles were also set on fire the weekend before Wright’s shooting, one at West Side Laundry on Patton Lane and at a residence on Martin Luther King Drive.

Jones said arson is suspected in both fires, adding that the automobile at the cleaners “was shot up.”

On Tuesday, the criminal investigation into Wright’s shooting — which became a murder Wednesday— was slowed by a murder trial in Batesville that gobbled up Tuesday and Wednesday, and most of Thursday.

“It really tied us up,” Jones said of the trial.

Two Batesville Police Department detectives, who investigated the January 2011 shooting death of Herman Smith, were key witnesses in the trial of Derrick Burdette this week.

Batesville police detained several suspects for questioning shortly after the shooting Monday though the jail log showed five people had been released by Tuesday.

Jones said several others are being questioned but no charges have been filed.

“We are piecing some things together,” said the chief. “We’ve just got to be real careful how we go about it.”

The police department is seeking more eyewitnesses to the shooting, said Jones.

Citing the mobile home shootings and pair of car fires, Jones said, “We need more people to come forward and help us. We need to get these people off the streets.”

A group of local pastors plans to meet Saturday at Mt. Gillion Baptist Church on Terza Road at 9 a.m. in response to criminal activity in the community. Willie Butler of the Pastors and Ministers Fellowship extended an invitation to church leaders from all denominations to attend the meeting and discuss solutions to escalating crime.