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FBI Agents are asking for the public’s help in identifying four people seen in the vicinity of a mass shooting in a Mississippi Delta city that left six dead and more than a dozen injured over the weekend.
FBI’s jackson The field office late Sunday released photos of four people — a woman and three men — shown in surveillance video and identified in an FBI poster as “unknown suspects.” Authorities have not released a possible motive for the shooting in Leland, but the FBI said it appears the shooting occurred “due to a disagreement between multiple individuals.”
The shooting, which occurred as people celebrated homecoming weekend in Downtown Leland shortly after a high school football game, was the deadliest of several shootings in Mississippi on Friday night. Four of the victims died at the scene, where discarded shoes and blood stains were left on the sidewalk of a city street the next day.
Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing people injured and bleeding from various parts of their bodies and four people lying dead on the ground. “It was the most horrifying sight I ever saw,” Hopkins told the Associated Press.
2 others killed in separate shootings in eastern part of the state
In the eastern part of the state, in a small town heidelbergThe bodies of two people, including a pregnant woman, were found in a high school campus on Friday night. According to police and Mississippi government, the shooting occurred the same evening that Heidelberg High School played its homecoming football game. tate reeves, Police He did not say when the shooting occurred or how close it was to the stadium.
An 18-year-old man was arrested on two counts of murder and unlawful possession of a gun on school grounds in the Heidelberg shooting, Jasper County jail records show.
Heidelberg, a town of about 640 residents, is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) southeast of Jackson, the state capital.