A pregnant woman was among six people killed when tragedy struck at a Mississippi homecoming celebration.
The festive gathering turned violent when two separate shootings erupted after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region.
‘People were just congregating and having a good time in the downtown of Leland,’ state Sen. Derrick Simmons said of the town with a population of fewer than 4,000 people.
‘It´s just senseless gun violence,’ he said. ‘What we are experiencing now is just a proliferation of guns just being in circulation.’
About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in the downtown area following the game.
Of the 20 who were hurt, 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 said.
The crime scene is not far from City Hall, where family members gathered to seek answers. The media was not allowed inside.