{"id":98234,"date":"2025-10-13T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=98234"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:00","slug":"four-dead-at-least-20-injured-in-south-carolina-island-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=98234","title":{"rendered":"Four dead, at least 20 injured in South Carolina island shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four people were killed and at least 20 were injured in a shooting at a restaurant in a\u00a0South Carolina\u00a0island town on Sunday, the Beaufort County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

Deputies were called to Willie\u2019s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island just before 1 a.m. and found several people suffering from gunshot wounds, the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Of those injured, four are in critical condition, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office said it was investigating the incident but declined to provide further details. The office declined to release the names of those killed pending notification of family members.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people were there at the time of the shooting, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tragic and difficult incident for everyone,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

St. Helena Island is known as an epicentre of a\u00a0culture of people\u00a0descended from African slaves known as Gullah Geechee. The bar and grill where the shooting occurred describes itself as serving authentic Gullah cuisine.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings, which the Gun Violence Archive defines as incidents where four or more people are shot,\u00a0have become more common\u00a0in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0in the past decade.<\/p>\n

Americans are largely divided along political lines regarding possible policy solutions, with Democrats favouring more gun restrictions and Republicans backing gun rights and better enforcement of laws against violent crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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