Multiple people dead after gunmen open fire on school football game celebration

Three people are dead and eight others are injured after two men opened fire at a group celebrating a high school football game victory.

Several hundred people had been celebrating near an outdoor trail after the game ended early Saturday morning near Lexington, Mississippi, when the chaos unfolded.

Police currently don’t know what prompted the shooting, but a fight had broken out between some attendees before shots were fired.

Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said: ‘It was chaos, to tell you the truth. The shooting just started and people started running.’

The school had been celebrating a victory at their homecoming game when the shots were fired.

Two nineteen year olds died, and a 25-year-old also succumbed to their injuries.

They have been named as Shundra Chestnut and John Jenkins, 19, and Martel Gibson, 25.

The condition of the others is currently unknown.

March added: ‘It’s hard to see what they are fighting over. I don’t think they are fighting over turf or drugs.

‘These are young men walking around with weapons. I wish I had an answer.’

In 2019, four people were killed and others were injured after a gunman opened fire at a football game viewing party in California.

There have been more than 385 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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