Four men shot dead at a rural Mississippi bar by suspect who was charged with ANOTHER nightclub shooting last year

  • Briddell Barber, 27, was arrested Monday morning for the shooting of 4 men
  • The shooting took place at Club 66 in Yazoo City, Mississippi 
  • An altercation surrounding Barber's girlfriend transpired around 1am Monday 
  • Victims have been identified as Edward Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Kerrandan Allen, and Gabriel Townsend
  • Barber was charged with murder in a fatal March 2016 nightclub shooting 

By Anna Hopkins For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:49 EST, 6 February 2017 | Updated: 13:47 EST, 6 February 2017

27-year-old Briddell Barber was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on Monday morning after the fatal shooting around 1am outside of Club 66 in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

27-year-old Briddell Barber was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on Monday morning after the fatal shooting around 1am outside of Club 66 in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

A man has been arrested in connection with a quadruple homicide outside a bar in rural Mississippi where four men were shot dead.

The suspect, 27-year-old Briddell Barber, was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on Monday morning after the fatal shooting around 1am outside of Club 66 in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Barber was charged with murder in a previous homicide in March of 2016 when he shot and killed a 25-year-old Justin Jamel Porter.

The victims at the Club 66 shooting have been identified as Edward Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Jerrandan Allen, and Gabriel Townsend.

Barber was charged with murder in a previous homicide in March of 2016 when he shot and killed a 25-year-old Justin Jamel Porter

Barber was charged with murder in a previous homicide in March of 2016 when he shot and killed a 25-year-old Justin Jamel Porter

Jackson Police Department Commissioner Tyree Jones confirmed that the suspect came to Jackson, Mississippi to a home in the area of Wood Lawn Street and Derry Street

Jackson Police Department Commissioner Tyree Jones confirmed that the suspect came to Jackson, Mississippi to a home in the area of Wood Lawn Street and Derry Street

Police Chief Andrew Loyd said that one of the victims was giving Barber's girlfriend a ride home from the bar, which angered Barber who didn't want her to go with them.

They then got into an argument outside the establishment which carried into a nearby apartment complex, the Clarion-Ledger reported. 

Two of the men were pronounced dead at the scene. The other two wounded men died at University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Tributes of heartbroken friends and family have been posted on social media as the news has circulated of the four men's untimely deaths.  

Gabriel Townsend has been identified as one of the four victims in the shooting

Gabriel Townsend has been identified as one of the four victims in the shooting

Tributes of heartbroken friends and family have been posted on social media as the news has circulated of the four men's untimely deaths

Tributes of heartbroken friends and family have been posted on social media as the news has circulated of the four men's untimely deaths

Police Chief Andrew Loyd said that one of the victims was giving Barber's girlfriend a ride home from the bar, which angered Barber who didn't want her to go with them

Police Chief Andrew Loyd said that one of the victims was giving Barber's girlfriend a ride home from the bar, which angered Barber who didn't want her to go with them

Authorities had earlier asked law enforcement officials in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama to be on the lookout for him. 

Jackson Police Department Commissioner Tyree Jones confirmed that the suspect came to Jackson, Mississippi to a home in the area of Wood Lawn Street and Derry Street.

He reportedly had ties to an unnamed individual in the area and went there following the shooting before being arrested around 7:30 this morning. 

Barber's previous murder charge was also at a Yazoo City nightclub, Club Teflon, less than two miles away from Club 66.

It is thus far unclear why he was not imprisoned for the 2016 murder charges. 

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