At least two gunmen opened fire into a crowd of several hundred people celebrating a school’s homecoming football victory at an outdoor gathering in central Mississippi on Friday just after midnight, leaving three people dead and eight others wounded.
The shooting took place at around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 19 at a property in Holmes County, about five miles outside of Lexington, according to Holmes County Sheriff Willie March.
“It was chaos, to tell you the truth,” March said in a phone interview. “The shooting just started and people started running.”
The sheriff said the gunfire erupted after a fight between some of the men at the celebration, which followed a football game several hours earlier at the Holmes County Consolidated School’s homecoming event. After the game, scores of young people headed to the property to celebrate the win, with anywhere from 200 to 300 people there when the shots rang out….