{"id":196420,"date":"2026-01-10T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lone-gunman-kills-6-in-shootings-that-spanned-three-locations-in-mississippi-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:49:45","slug":"lone-gunman-kills-6-in-shootings-that-spanned-three-locations-in-mississippi-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lone-gunman-kills-6-in-shootings-that-spanned-three-locations-in-mississippi-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone gunman kills 6 in shootings that spanned three locations in Mississippi &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> news Alerts<br \/>There are no new alerts at this time<br \/>Six people were killed in Mississippi shootings Friday night by a single gunman in incidents that sprawled across three different crime scenes, according to the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<br \/>&#8220;Unfortunately tonight we have dealt with tragedy in our community,&#8221; Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said in a Facebook post about the shooting. <br \/>The shootings took place in West Point, near the Alabama border, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mississippi-shooting-deaths-west-point-e7fcceb607e0e830c0215c4ae560e1c1\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a> reported. It claimed the lives of six people, some of whom were related to the shooter, Scott told NBC News. <br \/>Officials did not share any information on the shooting, or identify any of the victims. <br \/>The suspect is in custody and there is no additional threat to the community, Scott said. <br \/>&#8220;I ask that you lift our victims and their families in your prayers,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;Law Enforcement is busy investigating and will release an update as soon as possible.&#8221;<br \/>The incident, and a motive, are still under investigation. <br \/>Mirna Alsharif is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.<br \/>Madison Lambert\u00a0is\u00a0an assignment editor at NBC News.<br \/>&copy;&nbsp;2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxON1c1SUs5ZU81Y0hURHNpVUtMcllwQmZ0Z0lYZlQzXzNDZWhfdXVsVnpJeHJMM2tESzlaRzlISFJTbWt5XzdxRWcwYWRNQnFfSVZaMHZ3TWNkUS0wYmsxeVRDMi1POG50ZzhXYmpWbHNCY2E4b2F4YVVnckxTalR5cllZdXpVUFJFNGhrMFRidWhZZEhpRzJj?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeSix people were killed in Mississippi shootings Friday night by a single gunman in incidents that sprawled across three different crime scenes, according to the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office.&#8220;Unfortunately tonight we have dealt with tragedy in our community,&#8221; Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said in a Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}