People participate in a candlelight vigil Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Leland to honor victims of gunfire that occurred days earlier during a homecoming block party. Credit: Leonardo Bevilacqua/Mississippi Today
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.
