Associated Press Published Sunday, April 17, 2022 2:40 PM EDT Last Updated on Sunday, April 17, 2022 4:28 PM EDT
Hampton, South Carolina (AP) – Authorities in South Carolina say they are investigating a shooting at a nightclub in Hampton County early Sunday that injured at least nine people. It was the second mass shooting in the state over the weekend of Easter and the third in the country.
The shooting in South Carolina and one in Pittsburgh, which killed two minors early Sunday, injured at least 31 people.
South Carolina’s state law enforcement department is investigating Sunday’s early shooting at Cara’s Lounge in Hampton County. The agency said in an email that there were no reports of deaths. Information on the severity of the injuries is not immediately available. Hampton County is about 80 miles (about 129 kilometers) west of Charleston. A phone call to the nightclub was not answered.
In Pittsburgh, meanwhile, two minors were killed and at least eight were injured in a shooting at a home party. The shooting, which sparked a brawl, took place around 12:30 a.m. during a party at a short-term rental property where hundreds of people had gathered – “most of them minors,” Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert told reporters. . .
Sunday’s shooting comes just a day after a fire broke out in a busy mall in the South Carolina state capital, about 90 miles north of the site of Sunday’s nightclub shooting. Nine people were shot and five were injured as they tried to flee the scene at the Columbiana Center, Colombia Police Chief WH “Skip” Holbrooke said on Saturday. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 73. No one was life-threatening.
“We don’t believe it’s a coincidence,” Holbrooke said. “We believe they know each other and something led to the shooting.
The Columbia Police Department has announced the arrest of 22-year-old Jewey M. Price, who was one of three people initially detained by law enforcement as a person of interest in the mall shooting. Colombian police said on Twitter that a judge had agreed on Sunday to allow Price to leave prison on $ 25,000 bail. He was to be placed under house arrest with an ankle monitor, police said. As of Sunday afternoon, the charge against him is illegal carrying a gun. He is the only person arrested so far in the shooting at the mall, and there is no lawyer in the online prison records who can speak on his behalf.
Police said the judge would allow Price to travel from home to work at certain hours each day. Price is banned from contacting the victims and anyone else involved in the shooting incident.
South Carolina residents aged 21 or over can obtain a gun license, which since last year has allowed them to carry weapons openly or covertly. They must undergo eight hours of training with a weapon and pass a test that includes fingerprints.
The three mass shootings for Easter over the weekend are in addition to other shootings in recent days. Last week, a gunman opened fire on a New York subway car, injuring 10 people. The next day, a suspect was detained. Earlier this month, police said six people were killed and 12 others injured in Sacramento, California, during a shootout between rival gangs as bars closed in a busy area near Downtown Commons Mall and the State Capitol. .
A week ago, a man and a woman were killed and 10 were injured in a shooting at a crowded nightclub in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, authorities said. And last month, 10 people were shot dead at a spring break party in Dallas and several others were injured while trying to escape the shooting, police said.
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