Posted on 10/11/2025 12:45:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said.
Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state’s western edge, a state senator said Saturday.
About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a hospital in nearby Greenville to a larger medical center in the state capital city of Jackson, Simmons told The Associated Press.
Simmons said he was being updated on developments by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office as well as from other law enforcement authorities in the Delta.
“People were just congregating and having a good time in the downtown of Leland,” Simmons said of the town with a population of fewer than 4,000 people.
He was told that after the gunfire, the scene was “very chaotic,” as police, sheriff’s deputies and ambulances “responded from all over.”
“It’s just senseless gun violence,” he said. “What we are experiencing now is just a proliferation of guns just being in circulation.”
No arrests have been announced, and Simmons said late Saturday morning that he had not heard any information about possible suspects.
“They are on the ground working and I have all the faith in the world that they will get to the bottom of this,” he said.
“As the state senator for the area, we are asking any and all individuals who might have any information regarding the horrific shooting last night to come forward and provide whatever information they have,” he added.
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Do I even need to guess?
Dey jus’ celebratin’
“It’s just senseless gun violence,”
“It’s just senseless gun violence,” he said. “What we are experiencing now is just a proliferation of guns just being in circulation.”
Those guns! What do they have against people?! They should be ashamed!
/sarc
Bit of Chicago in Mississippi. Gangsters back home visiting.
I remember the worse that can happen at home coming is you forgot your condoms.
How is that different from “What we are experiencing now is just a proliferation of guns drugs just being in circulation,” and since outlawing drugs didn't work, what makes you think outlawing guns will work?
Lolz! You are such a stitch! It is so obvious that there is absolutely no need to wake Yogi or Boo-boo.
We know. We always know.
T • H • E • M
Just living the thug life. Nothing to see here.
Mass casualty transit.
Leland Mississippi 72-75% black with a population of under 4,000
Yes you’re right! Why land Sakes! There ought to be a law that says guns have to have sense!
The latest census numbers show the two towns are 61% and 85% blacque. Shocker.
It’s not OUR GUNS...
It’s YOUR SONS.
The “teens” again?
THE TROUBLEMAKERS ARE THE BAD ITEMS ‘IN CIRCULATION”.
Same old same old
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