In the late hours of October 10, 2025, the joyous atmosphere of a homecoming celebration in downtown Leland, Mississippi, was shattered by gunfire, and Oreshama Johnson, a 41-year-old Black male, was among the first to fall. The annual block party, a tradition following the high school's football game, turned into a scene of chaos and panic as shots rang out near the intersection of North Main and Fourth Street around midnight. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene, one of several victims in
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