Four people have been taken into custody after a deadly mass shooting shattered a Mississippi town’s homecoming weekend, leaving six dead and more than a dozen others wounded, according to the FBI’s Jackson Field Office.
Three people have been arrested on murder charges – and a fourth person on an attempted murder charge – in a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town. Teviyon L Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital murder, while Latoya A Powell, 44, has been charged with attempted murder in the mass shooting, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Jackson field office said.
It was not immediately clear whether they have attorneys. The Associated Press left a voicemail with the Washington county public defender’s office asking if its attorneys are representing the defendants. The shooting came as people celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a high school football game, and was the deadliest of several shootings across Mississippi. Other shootings were reported at two Mississippi universities on Saturday as those schools celebrated their homecoming weekends. Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive for Friday night’s shooting in Leland, but the FBI said the gunfire appeared to have been “sparked by a disagreement among several individuals”. The spokesperson said without elaborating in an email late on Monday that “other arrests are pending” as the investigation continues into the shooting in the rural north-west Delta region.
Four of the victims died at the scene, where abandoned shoes were left and blood stained the pavement of a downtown street the following day. The shooting in Leland was among at least 14 mass killings in the US in 2025, according to the nonpartisan Gun Violence Archive. Mass killings are defined as cases in which four or more victims are intentionally killed.
High numbers of mass killings in the US annually have prompted many to call on the federal government to provide more substantial gun control. But Congress has largely been unwilling or unable to heed such calls.