By Associated Press - Monday, February 6, 2017

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi authorities say a Yazoo City man has been arrested and charged in the deaths of four people shot after an argument at a nightclub.

State Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain says 27-year-old Briddell Barber was charged Monday with first-degree murder. That could bring the death penalty if he’s convicted in the shootings that took place about 1 a.m. Monday.

Strain says the victims have been identified as 24-year-old Gabriel Townsend, 31-year-old Jerrandan Allen, 30-year-old Kevin Johnson and 45-year-old Edward Johnson.

He says autopsies are scheduled Tuesday in Pearl, and Barber’s initial court appearance is scheduled Wednesday afternoon in Yazoo City.

The Department of Public Safety says Barber was taken into custody in Jackson by a U.S. Marshals Service task force.

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