According to CNN, Mayor John Lee said that 16 people were attacked in the city of Leland, located in the northwest of the state of Mississippi, in an uncontrolled shooting near the downtown on Friday night.
Four people were killed and 12 people were injured in a shooting incident in the US state of Mississippi on Friday night.
According to CNN, 16 people were attacked in the city of Leland, located in the northwest of the state of Mississippi, in an uncontrolled shooting near the downtown on Friday night. According to local time, the shooting occurred at a gathering organized after the homecoming American football competition of Leland High School on Friday afternoon.
16 people were shot and four people died and 12 injured people are undergoing treatment after emergency rescue, according to Leland Police. So far, no one has been found related to the shooting incident and the investigation is ongoing, Mayor Lee said.
"The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has begun its work on the shooting incident, but as far as I know, no one has been found," Mayor Lee said. Four of the people injured in the shooting incident were sent to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, after receiving general treatment at a hospital in Greenville, police said.
Earlier, three people were killed in a shooting in Brooklyn, New York. Three people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting at the Taste of the City lounge bar on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
