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Three folks have been arrested on homicide expenses and a fourth particular person on an tried homicide cost in a weekend shooting that left six lifeless and greater than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi city, the FBI introduced Monday.
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Teviyon L. Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital homicide, whereas Latoya A. Powell, 44, has been charged with tried homicide, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Jackson Field Office stated.
It was not instantly clear whether or not the 4 folks arrested have attorneys. The Associated Press left a voicemail with the Washington County Public Defender’s Office asking if its attorneys are representing the defendants.
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Authorities haven’t disclosed a doable motive for Friday night time’s shooting in Leland, however the FBI stated the gunfire seems to have been “sparked by a disagreement among several individuals.” The spokesperson stated with out elaborating in an electronic mail late Monday that “other arrests are pending” because the investigation continues.
The disclosure concerning the arrests got here after the FBI stated earlier that it was search the general public’s assist in figuring out 4 folks sought in connection with the shooting. Late Sunday, the company launched images of 1 feminine and three males proven in surveillance video and recognized in an FBI poster as “unknown suspects.”
The shooting, which got here as folks celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a highschool soccer recreation, was the deadliest of a number of shootings throughout Mississippi over the weekend. Other shootings had been reported at two Mississippi universities on Saturday, as these faculties celebrated their homecoming weekends.
In Leland, 4 of the victims died on the scene, the place deserted sneakers had been left and blood stained the pavement of a downtown avenue the next day.
Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing people wounded and bleedingand 4 folks mendacity lifeless on the bottom. “It was the most horrific scene I’d ever seen,” Hopkins instructed The Associated Press.
The shooting in Leland was the 14th mass killing in 2025, in keeping with The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. The database tracks all homicides in the U.S. since 2006 in which 4 or extra folks had been killed deliberately inside a 24-hour interval, not together with any offender.
Elsewhere on the east aspect of the state, in the small city of Heidelberg, the our bodies of two folks, together with a pregnant girl, had been discovered on a highschool campus Friday night time. That shooting occurred the identical night Heidelberg High School performed its homecoming soccer recreation, in keeping with police and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves. Police haven’t stated precisely when the gunfire occurred or how shut it was to the stadium.
An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with two counts of homicide and illegally having a gun on a faculty campus in the Heidelberg shooting, Jasper County Jail information present.
Heidelberg, a city of about 640 residents, is about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of the state capital of Jackson.
And on the Alcorn State University campus in Claiborne County, three folks had been discovered with obvious gunshot wounds close to a campus constructing round 6:30 p.m. Saturday, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation stated. One of the victims died, the company stated. Police discovered the victims after a name reporting photographs fired in the realm of the economic expertise constructing. No arrests had been introduced.
The shooting occurred after greater than 7,000 spectators noticed Alcorn State defeat Lincoln University of Oakland, California, in the Mississippi faculty’s homecoming recreation Saturday afternoon.
In Jackson, police responded round 7 p.m. Saturday to the tailgating space of Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, the place Jackson State University hosted Alabama State University. A juvenile had been shot in the stomach and was taken to a hospital, police stated. No arrests had been introduced, and few different particulars about that shooting had been instantly accessible.