Jackson police are trying to determine whether a 17-year-old wounded Saturday afternoon was injured while breaking into a home.

"We're getting told about two to three different stories," Cmdr. Lee Vance said.

Police had not made any arrests in the case Saturday night.

Vance said officers were called to the 400 block of East Meadowbrook Road about 3 p.m. because of reports of gunfire.

In a single-story, gray house, officers found shell casings and holes in the residence, Vance said.

Across the street in the parking lot of the former McRae's, authorities found the 17-year-old with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder. He was rushed to a local hospital. Police would not identify the victim.

However, witnesses inside the house told police a group of young males - including the teen wounded - kicked in the side door of the home and opened fire, Sgt. William Thompson said.

"Everybody was shooting like they were some savages," said Jeremy McCollum, 18, a witness to the alleged home invasion.

The young men in the house said they ran for cover, and one escaped through a window.

The crime on Meadowbrook occurred two days into a state of emergency declared by Mayor Frank Melton.

Sgt. Perry Martin of the JPD Youth Services Division said Saturday evening there had been no curfew busts since the state of emergency began.

"They arrested not a single soul," Martin said. "The kids are staying off the street. The curfew is being honored."

Terrence Terry, 17, one of the people inside the house, said the shooting shows the earlier curfew mandated by Melton is not the answer.

"If they are going to do a crime, they are going to do it any time of the day," he said.

Across the street from the house, Jenni Smith watched the police search the yard for evidence.

Smith, 31, said her neighborhood was safe."It kind of makes you mad that some bad people can do something like this," she said. "It makes the whole neighborhood look bad."

About 10 police cars were parked in the street, slowing traffic for about an hour, and a line of yellow police tape cordoned off the driveway and part of the lawn.

Melton also said that JPD would continue to conduct "interdictions" where police would stop every vehicle on a street and ask the driver of every vehicle permission to search it.

Judith Johnson, a professor at Mississippi College School of Law, said such stops were legal only if done with the intent to enforce regulatory laws, such as for drivers license or drunken driving checks.

"You can't stop cars to make sure they are obeying the criminal law, if they have guns or drugs or whatever," she said. "If that's the purpose of the stop, then its illegal. Clearly."

However, a curfew ordinance could be considered a regulatory law, so a roadblock conducted for enforcing it may be legal, she said.

Still, the only way a police officers can search a vehicle without the driver's permission is if there is evidence of illegal activity.

"People don't understand they can refuse (a search)," she said. But, "that often makes the officer more suspicious."

Two men also were wounded in separate shootings Friday night and Saturday morning, Vance said.

Melton said he would be out again Saturday night in the JPD Mobile Command Unit.It would be the 14th day in a row he has done so, he said.