Still images from video filmed by Jennifer Buckner shows a large number of emergency responders and police at the intersection of N Broad Street and 4th Street in Leland. (Credit: Jennifer Buckner via Storyful)
Multiple arrests have been made after a mass shooting and killing happened during homecoming weekend in a small Mississippi town.
The FBI says four people have been arrested, three of them on murder charges.
Mississippi homecoming shooting
The backstory:
The shooting happened as people celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after the high school football game Friday night.
Four of the victims died at the scene, where abandoned shoes were left and blood stained the pavement of a downtown street the following day. Two others were later pronounced dead, and more than a dozen people were hurt.
What they’re saying:
Police didn’t give a possible motive, but the FBI said the gunfire appears to have been “sparked by a disagreement among several individuals.”
Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing people wounded and bleeding and four people dead on the ground. “It was the most horrific scene I’d ever seen,” Hopkins told the AP.
Arrests:
Teviyon L. Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital murder, while Latoya A. Powell, 44, has been charged with attempted murder in the mass shooting, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Jackson Field Office said.
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Big picture view:
It was one of several shootings across Mississippi over the weekend. Other shootings were reported at two Mississippi universities on Saturday, as those schools also celebrated their homecoming weekends.
The shooting in Leland was the 14th mass killing in 2025, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database.
By definition:
The database defines a mass killing as an attack in which four or more people have died, not including the perpetrator, within a 24-hour period. This definition is consistent with how the FBI defines mass killings.
The Source: Information in this article was taken from the FBI’s Jackson Field Office, as reported by The Associated Press. Background information was also taken from The Associated Press and previous FOX Television Station reportings. This story was reported from Detroit.
