Four people arrested on suspicion of involvement weekend shoot A fire broke out in a Mississippi town, killing six people and injuring more than a dozen others, the FBI announced Monday.
Teviyon L. Powell, 29; William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, were charged with murder, while LaToya A. Powell, 44, was charged with attempted murder in the mass shooting, a spokesman for the FBI’s Jackson Field Office confirmed to CBS News.
It was unclear whether the suspect had a lawyer. The Associated Press left a voicemail with the Washington County Public Defender’s Office asking if its attorneys represented the defendants.
“Additional arrests are pending as the investigation continues,” the spokesman said, urging anyone with information about the shooting in rural Northwest Delta to report the tip to the FBI.
The shooting happened early Saturday morning. The shooting, the deadliest of several weekend shootings in Mississippi, occurred as people celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a high school football game.
Mississippi Gun Violence Report
On Saturday, another shooting at Heidelberg High School left two people dead. This also happened during the homecoming game. Other shootings were reported Saturday at two Mississippi universities as they celebrated homecoming weekend.
Authorities have not revealed a possible motive for Friday night’s shooting in Leland, but the FBI said the shooting appeared to be “spurred by a disagreement between several individuals.”
Four of the victims died instantly, and abandoned shoes were left on the sidewalks of downtown streets, stained with blood, the next day.
Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing injured and bleeding people and four people lying dead on the ground. “It was the most horrific scene I’ve ever seen,” Hopkins told The Associated Press.
The Leland shooting was the 14th mass killing in 2025, according to the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. The database tracks all intentional homicides of four or more people in a 24-hour period in the United States since 2006, and does not include any criminals.
Elsewhere in the eastern town of Heidelberg, the bodies of two people, including a pregnant woman, were found on a high school campus on Friday night. The shooting occurred the same night Heidelberg High School held its homecoming football game, according to police and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves. Police did not say when the shooting occurred or how close it was to the stadium.
An 18-year-old man was arrested in the Heidelberg shooting and charged with two counts of murder and illegal possession of a gun on school grounds, Jasper County jail records show.
Heidelberg is a small town of about 640 residents located about 85 miles southeast of the state capital, Jackson.
Three other people were found with apparent gunshot wounds on the Alcorn State University campus in Claiborne County on Saturday night, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. One of the victims died, the agency said. Police found the victim after receiving a call reporting a shooting near the Industrial Technology Building. No arrests were announced.
The shooting occurred Saturday afternoon as more than 7,000 spectators watched Alcorn State beat Lincoln University in Oakland, Calif., in the Mississippi school’s homecoming game.
In Jackson, police responded to the tailgating area at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, where Jackson State hosted Alabama State, around 7 p.m. Saturday. One teen was shot in the abdomen and taken to the hospital, police said. No arrests have been announced and few other details about the shooting were immediately released.
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