Over the weekend, three people were arrested on suspicion of murder and a fourth on suspicion of attempted murder. shooting The FBI said Monday that six people were killed and more than a dozen injured in the town of Delta, Mississippi.
Tevyon L. Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, were charged with secret murder, and LaToya A. Powell, 44, was charged with attempted murder, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Jackson field office announced.
It is not clear at this time whether the four people arrested have lawyers. The Associated Press left a voicemail with the Washington County Public Defender’s Office asking if an attorney from the office is representing the defendant.
Authorities have not released a motive for Friday night’s shooting in Leland, but the FBI said it appeared to be “prompted by a disagreement between several people.” A spokesperson did not elaborate in an email late Monday, saying “other arrests are pending” as the investigation continues.
The announcement of the arrests came after the FBI previously announced it would seek the public’s help in identifying the four people sought in connection with the shooting. Late Sunday, authorities released photos of a woman and three men who were seen on surveillance video and identified on an FBI poster as “unidentified suspects.”
The shooting, which occurred as people celebrated Homecoming weekend in downtown Leland just after a high school football game, was the deadliest of several mass shootings in Mississippi over the weekend. Other shootings were reported Saturday as two Mississippi universities celebrated homecoming weekend.
In Leland, four of the victims died at the scene, and abandoned shoes and blood stains were left on the sidewalks of downtown streets the next day.
Witness Camish Hopkins Description of seeing people injured and bleeding And four people lying dead on the ground. “It was the most horrifying sight I’ve ever seen,” Hopkins told The Associated Press.
The Leland shooting was announced as the 14th mass murder of 2025. Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Murder Database. The database tracks all U.S. homicides since 2006 in which four or more people, not including the criminal, were intentionally killed within a 24-hour period.
Elsewhere in the state’s east, in the small town of Heidelberg, two bodies, including a pregnant woman, were found on a high school campus on Friday night. The shooting occurred on the same night as Heidelberg High School’s 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 and charged with two counts of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm on school property in the Heidelberg shooting, according to Jasper County Jail records.
Heidelberg, a town of about 640 people, is located about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of the state capital, Jackson.
Also on Alcorn State University’s campus in Claiborne County, three people with apparent gunshot wounds were found near campus buildings around 6:30 p.m. Saturday, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. According to the agency, one of the victims died. Police found the victim after receiving reports of shots fired near the Industrial Technology Building. No arrests have been announced.
The shooting occurred Saturday afternoon after a crowd of more than 7,000 people watched Alcorn State University defeat Lincoln University in Oakland, Calif., in the University of Mississippi’s homecoming game.
In Jackson, police were called to the tailgating area of Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, where Jackson State University hosted Alabama State University, around 7 p.m. Saturday. Police said the boy was shot in the abdomen and taken to the hospital. No arrests have been announced and few other details about the shooting have been released.
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Golden reported from Seattle. Associated Press freelance photographer Katie Adkins in Leland and Associated Press writer Meade Gruber in Fort Collins, Colorado, contributed.
