One dead, two injured in graduation party shooting

Published 5:43 pm Saturday, May 25, 2019

A shooting at a graduation party in Mississippi has left one man dead and two others injured.

WLBT-TV reports Port Gibson Police Chief Calvin Jackson says officials responded to a shooting around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at the Claiborne County Convention Center.

Police found Arsenio Johnson dead upon arriving at the scene.

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Robert Thomas Jr. was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and transported to an area hospital.

Amari Johnson, a minor, was also injured in the shooting.

Jackson says the investigation is ongoing and that there is no known motive into what led to the shooting.