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Kenlanda Burns

Case from Yazoo City, MS dated Sep 23, 2025

Victim Details

Kenlanda Burns

Female

Black / African American

Yazoo City

MS

2025-09-23

35

Kenlanda

Burns

07/18/2026

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In the early morning hours of September 23, 2025, the life of 35-year-old Kenlanda Burns, a Black female from Yazoo City, Mississippi, was tragically cut short. Burns, a cafeteria worker for the Yazoo City Municipal School District and a mother, was found shot to death at the Willow Wood Apartments on Grady Avenue. She was discovered by officers responding to the scene around dawn and was pronounced dead at 6:37 a.m. from a single gunshot wound to the back of the head as she was leaving her apar ...
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  • WAPT: Yazoo City murder prompts call to action against domestic violence
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