4 arrests made in connection with mass shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says

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 the FBI communicated Monday Teviyon L Powell William Bryant and Morgan Lattimore have been charged with capital murder while Latoya A Powell has been charged with attempted murder in the mass shooting a spokesperson for the FBI s Jackson Field Office commented It was not promptly clear whether they have attorneys The Associated Press left a voicemail with the Washington County Masses Defender s Office asking if its attorneys are representing the defendants The shooting which came as people celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a high school football battle was the deadliest of several shootings across Mississippi over the weekend Other shootings were announced at two Mississippi universities on Saturday as those schools celebrated their homecoming weekends Agents have not disclosed a accomplishable motive for Friday night s shooting in Leland but the FBI stated the gunfire appears to have been sparked by a disagreement among several individuals The spokesperson noted without elaborating in an email late Monday that other arrests are pending as the inquiry continues into the shooting in the rural northwest Delta region Four of the casualties died at the scene where abandoned shoes were left and blood stained the pavement of a downtown street the following day Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing people wounded and bleeding and four people dead on the ground It was the the majority horrific scene I d ever seen Hopkins described the AP The shooting in Leland was the th mass killing in according to The Associated Press USA THIS DAY Northeastern University Mass Killing Database The database tracks all homicides in the U S since in which four or more people were killed intentionally within a -hour period not including any offender Elsewhere in the small town of Heidelberg on the east side of the state the bodies of two people including a pregnant woman were identified on a high school campus Friday night That shooting happened the same evening Heidelberg High School played its homecoming football championship according to police and Mississippi Gov Tate Reeves Police have not disclosed exactly when the gunfire occurred or how close it was to the stadium An -year-old man was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and illegally having a gun on a school campus in the Heidelberg shooting Jasper County Jail records show Heidelberg a town of about residents is about miles kilometers southeast of the state capital of Jackson On Saturday evening three people also were identified with apparent gunshot wounds on the Alcorn State University campus in Claiborne County the Mississippi Bureau of Scrutiny noted One of the casualties died the agency explained Police identified the sufferers after a call reporting shots fired in the area of the industrial tool building No arrests were broadcasted The shooting happened after a crowd of more than watched Alcorn State defeat Lincoln University of Oakland California in the Mississippi school s homecoming match Saturday afternoon In Jackson police responded around p m Saturday to the tailgating area of Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium where Jackson State University hosted Alabama State University A juvenile had been shot in the abdomen and was taken to a hospital police announced No arrests were revealed and meager other details about that shooting were instantly available