LELAND – Destrile Jackson recited Psalm 23 as she ran for her life while bullets whizzed around her. Then she hid under a Jeep, watching as “guys with black T-shirts” shot at the sidewalk in her hometown in the Mississippi Delta.

She was sure she was going to get hit in the explosion of gunfire Friday night in Leland at a block party following a high school homecoming football game. She did but was not seriously wounded.

“I got hit running across the street. I just kept running. I could see the bodies dropping as I looked back. … I could see the bodies. … Just three minutes of continuing fire,” Jackson, a 2016 Leland High graduate, recalled Monday.

“I could see people drop like something you see in a movie,” she said. “It was panic. Everyone was in survival mode. People running and gett

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