NATCHEZ — Leah Webster is still waiting for answers concerning her brother, Gregory Bourland Webster’s untimely death.

Webster, 54, a Woodville resident, was found dead Wednesday, March 25.

The Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office told The Woodville Republican, Webster was found slumped over in his car in a ditch off Lower Woodville Road. His car was still running at the time.

The WCSO received a phone call some time around 8 p.m. that day alerting them of Webster’s vehicle, the newspaper reported.

After arriving at the scene, Wilkinson County law enforcement officers called county coroner Travis Sharp, who determined Webster had been shot, and pronounced him dead.

Earlier in the day, a shooting was also reported in the same area.

“Because his car hit an embankment, we want to try and determine the cause of death, whether it was from the shooting or the accident,” Sharp told The Woodville Republican.

Webster’s body has since been sent to the state crime lab in Jackson for an autopsy.

Officials from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations have also been looking at Webster’s car for any form of evidence into the cause of his death.

Leah Webster said her brother had purchased the car — an older model Lincoln — earlier that day for one of his daughters.

“Someone had stolen money from him earlier in the day, and I think he was driving to find that person,” Leah Webster said, adding that her brother had also been fighting a longtime battle with cancer. “We had been expecting his death, just not like this.”

Leah Webster said she, along with other family members, are seeking closure and justice for Webster.

“Things get swept under the rug a lot in Wilkinson County,” she said.