Three people were arrested for murder and a fourth person for attempted murder over the weekend shooting The FBI announced on Monday that violence left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small town in Mississippi.
A spokesman for the FBI’s Jackson Field Office said Tevion L. Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, were charged with first-degree murder, while LaToya Powell, 44, was charged with attempted murder in the mass shooting.
It was not immediately clear whether they had lawyers. The Associated Press left a voicemail for the Washington County public defender’s office asking if its attorneys were representing the defendants.
The shooting, which came as people were celebrating the weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a high school football game, was the deadliest of several shootings across Mississippi over the weekend. More shootings were reported at two Mississippi universities on Saturday, while those schools were celebrating the holiday weekend.
Authorities have not revealed a possible motive for Friday night’s shooting in Leland, but the FBI said the shooting appeared to have been “provoked by a dispute between several individuals.” “Further arrests remain pending” as the investigation into the shooting in the rural northwestern Delta region continues, the spokesman said without elaborating in an email late Monday.
Four of the victims died at the scene, and abandoned, bloodstained shoes were left on the sidewalk of a downtown street the next day.
Watch Kamish Hopkins She described seeing people injured and bleeding Four dead on the ground. “It was the scariest sight I’ve ever seen,” Hopkins told the AP.
The Leland shooting was the 14th mass killing of 2025, according to Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Homicide Database. The database tracks all homicides in the United States since 2006 in which four or more people were intentionally killed within a 24-hour period, and does not include any criminals.
Elsewhere, in the small town of Heidelberg on the eastern side of the state, the bodies of two people, including a pregnant woman, were found on a high school campus Friday night. The shooting occurred the same night Heidelberg High School played a football game, according to police and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves. Police did not say exactly when the shooting occurred or how close it was to the stadium.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder and unlawful possession of a handgun on a school campus in the Heidelberg shooting, Jasper County Jail records show.
Heidelberg, with a population of about 640, is located about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of the state capital, Jackson.
On Saturday evening, three people were found with apparent gunshot wounds on the Alcorn State University campus in Cleburne County, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. The agency said that one of the victims died. Police found the victims after a phone call reported gunfire in the Industrial Technology Building area. No arrests have been announced.
The shooting occurred after a crowd of more than 7,000 watched Alcorn State defeat Lincoln University in Oakland, Calif., in a rematch of the Mississippi school on Saturday afternoon.
In Jackson, police responded around 7 p.m. Saturday to the tailgating area at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, where Jackson State University hosted Alabama State University. Police said that a young man was shot in the abdomen and was taken to the hospital. No arrests were announced, and few other details about the shooting were immediately available.
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Associated Press freelance photographer Katie Adkins in Leland and AP writer Mead Grover in Fort Collins, Colorado, contributed.