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Four people were shot and killed Friday night during a homecoming weekend in Mississippi.

State Sen. Derrick Simmons said four other people were hurt in the shooting and hospitalized.

It’s not known yet if the victims were students.

Four people were shot and killed Friday night during homecoming weekend in a small Mississippi town.

Mississippi homecoming shooting

What we know:

Mississippi state Sen. Derrick Simmons said four people had been killed, and that four others were hurt after a high school football homecoming game in the town of Leland.

The victims were taken to a hospital in Greenville and then flown to a larger hospital in the state capital city of Jackson, said Simmons, who is the senator for that region.

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