FBI Announces Four Arrests Tied to Tragic Mississippi Mass Shooting, Six Lives Lost

The FBI announced on Monday that three individuals are facing murder charges, and a fourth is charged with attempted murder following a tragic shooting over the weekend in a small town in Mississippi. The incident resulted in the deaths of six people and left more than a dozen injured.

Teviyon L. Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital murder. Additionally, Latoya A. Powell, 44, faces an attempted murder charge in connection with the mass shooting, according to a spokesperson from the FBI’s Jackson Field Office.

At this time, it remains unclear if the accused have legal representation. The Associated Press reached out to the Washington County Public Defender’s Office, leaving a voicemail to inquire if any of its attorneys are involved in defending the suspects.

The shooting erupted during a homecoming celebration in downtown Leland, shortly after a high school football game, marking the deadliest outbreak of violence in Mississippi over the weekend. Meanwhile, other shootings occurred at two universities in the state as they also held homecoming festivities on Saturday.

Authorities have yet to identify a motive behind the Friday night violence in Leland. However, the FBI indicated that the gunfire might have been the result of a disagreement among several individuals. The spokesperson mentioned in an email late Monday that “other arrests are pending” as the ongoing investigation delves deeper into the shooting that took place in the rural northwest 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.

Witness Camish Hopkins described seeing people wounded and bleeding and four people dead on the ground. “It was the most horrific scene I’d ever seen,” Hopkins told the AP.

The shooting in Leland was the 14th mass killing in 2025, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. The database tracks all homicides in the U.S. since 2006 in which four or more people were killed intentionally within a 24-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 found on a high school campus Friday night. That shooting happened the same evening Heidelberg High School played its homecoming football game, according to police and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves. Police have not said exactly when the gunfire occurred or how close it was to the stadium.

An 18-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 640 residents, is about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of the state capital of Jackson.

On Saturday evening, three people also were found with apparent gunshot wounds on the Alcorn State University campus in Claiborne County, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. One of the victims died, the agency said. Police found the victims after a call reporting shots fired in the area of the industrial technology building. No arrests were announced.

The shooting happened after a crowd of more than 7,000 watched Alcorn State defeat Lincoln University of Oakland, California, in the Mississippi school’s homecoming game Saturday afternoon.

In Jackson, police responded around 7 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 said. No arrests were announced, and few other details about that shooting were immediately available.

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Associated Press freelance photographer Katie Adkins in Leland and AP writer Mead Gruver in Fort Collins, Colorado, contributed.