At least four people are dead, and 12 others were injured overnight in a shooting in Leland, Mississippi, at a downtown event taking place during Leland High School homecoming weekend.
"I just want to say, you know, our prayers and condolences go out to the family of the deceased and the ones that's been injured and shot," Leland Mayor John Lee said.
The suspect remains at large as of Saturday afternoon, Gov. Tate Reeves confirmed via X.
"People were just congregating and having a good time in the downtown of Leland," Mississippi state Sen. Derrick Simmons, a Democrat who represents people in that region, told The Associated Press.
"It’s just senseless gun violence," Simmons said. "What we are experiencing now is just a proliferation of guns just being in circulation."
WRONG! What you are experiencing are people who cannot use simple basic morals when looking at a gun without picking it up to shoot other people.
You can put 1,000 guns in my possession and I am still not going to shoot people with them.
But then I was brought up with morals and common sense rules.