High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire Friday night, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said.

Four were killed in downtown Leland after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta on the state’s western edge, a state senator said Saturday.

About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after a gathering in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a hospital in nearby Greenville to a larger medical center in the state capital of Jackson, Simmons told The Associated Press.

Simmons said he was being updated on developments by the Washington County Sheriff’s De

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