Four people have been arrested in connection with this a weekend recording that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, the FBI announced Monday.
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 confirmed to CBS News.
It was not immediately clear whether the suspects have lawyers. The Associated Press left a voicemail with the Washington County Public Defender’s Office asking if its attorneys represent the defendants.
“More arrests are pending as this investigation continues,” the spokesperson said, urging anyone with information about the shooting in the rural northwest Delta region to report tips to the FBI.
The shooting happened early Saturday morning. It came as people celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a high school football game, and it was the deadliest of several shootings in Mississippi over the weekend.
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Another shooting left two people dead at the Heidelberg high school on Saturday. It also happened during a homecoming game. Other shootings were reported Saturday at two Mississippi colleges as those schools celebrated homecoming weekend.
Authorities have not released a possible motive for the shooting Friday evening in Leland, but the FBI said the gunfire appears to have been “sparked by a disagreement between several individuals.”
Four of the victims died at the scene, where the next day abandoned shoes were left behind and the sidewalk of a downtown street was smeared with blood.
Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing injured and bleeding people and four dead on the ground. “It was the most horrific scene I have ever seen,” Hopkins told The AP.
The Leland shooting was the fourteenth mass murder of 2025, according to the BBC The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. The database tracks all homicides in the U.S. since 2006 where four or more people, not including the perpetrator, were intentionally killed within a 24-hour period.
Elsewhere, in the small town of Heidelberg on the state’s eastern side, the bodies of two people, including a pregnant woman, were found on a high school campus Friday evening. According to police and Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, the shooting occurred the same night Heidelberg High School played its home game. Police cannot say exactly when the gunfire occurred or how close it was to the stadium.
An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and illegally possessing a gun on a school campus in the Heidelberg shooting, Jasper County jail records show.
Heidelberg, a city of about 640 residents, is located about 85 miles (136 kilometers) southeast of the state capital of Jackson.
Three people were also found Saturday evening with apparent gunshot wounds on the campus of Alcorn State University in Claiborne County, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. One of the victims has died, the agency said. Police found the victims after a call reporting shots fired in the area surrounding the industrial technology building. No arrests were announced.
The shooting occurred after a crowd of more than 7,000 people watched Alcorn State defeat Lincoln University of Oakland, California, in the school’s home game in Mississippi on Saturday afternoon.
In Jackson, police responded to the tailgating area of Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, where Jackson State University hosted Alabama State University, around 7 p.m. Saturday. A juvenile was shot in the abdomen and taken to a hospital, police said. No arrests were announced and few other details about that shooting were immediately available.
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