Earlier, the AP agency reported, citing state senator Derrick Simmons, about four injured people who were transported first to a hospital in Greenville and then to a larger facility in the state capital, Jackson.
CBS noted that the police did not inform about the capture of the perpetrator. The station reported that the shooting occurred on the main street of Leland, which was crowded for an American football game for the city's high school team.
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“People were just gathering after the game and having a good time. “This is a senseless act of gun violence,” Derrick Simmons told the AP.
Another shooting in Mississippi
The BBC noted that on Wednesday evening (local time) there was a shooting in another Mississippi city, Heidelberg, where two people were killed.
Leland is a small town in Washington County, Mississippi. The population of Leland in 2020 was approximately 4,000. inhabitants.
