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Law enforcement officials and community leaders are asking for the public’s help in identifying people wanted for questioning in connection with a mass shooting mississippi The Delta town of Leland in which six people died.
A news conference is planned for Thursday afternoon at Leland City Hall, where local police and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials will attend. FBI And other state and federal agencies are expected to provide updates on the search for the suspects.
“We’re still trying to gather information on possible suspects out there,” Leland Meyer said. john lee Said.
Several suspects have been charged with murder in last Friday night’s shooting that left six people dead and more than a dozen injured.
The FBI’s Jackson Field Office is posting photos of suspects wanted for questioning in mass shootings. It happened as people celebrated homecoming weekend in the city of Leland immediately after a high school football game.
“There’s still kind of a numbness at this point,” Lee said Thursday. ,Family They’re still grieving, and they don’t have closure yet. “We are talking about funerals that haven’t even been prepared yet.”
The shooting happened at a community event that has been held in the small town area on Homecoming weekend for years, “where everyone would gather in the streets and have a good time,” the mayor said.
“It’s not like anything that’s ever happened around our community before,” he said.
The shooting in Leland was the deadliest of several that occurred in Mississippi last weekend. Other shootings occurred in two other cities where homecoming football games were being held and at Alcorn State and Jackson State universities, which were also celebrating homecoming weekend.
Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive for the Leland shooting, but the FBI has said it appears the shooting occurred “due to a disagreement between multiple individuals.”
Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing people injured and bleeding and four people lying dead on the ground.
Hopkins said, “It was the most terrifying sight I ever saw.”