Four people died during mass shooting St. Helena Island Bar Early Sunday morning because the sounds of the Rapid Gunfire sent their life guardians.
At least 20 customers at Willie’s Bar and Grill were injured during the shooting, 7 Martin Luther King Jr. In addition, four people who were declared dead at the scene, said the Beaufort County Sheriff.
The names of the victims were not immediately published until the family was reported.
2025 On 12 October, Sunday morning, Willie Bar and Barbecue entrance.
Authorities received several reports of shooting just before 1 hour
Arriving deputies found a large crowd with several suffering from gunshot wounds. During the shooting, the Sheriff’s Office said hundreds of people were at the bar, and several victims and witnesses drove to nearby businesses and real estate looking for shelter.
Beaufort County Ems will be able to go to hospitals in critical condition. At least 20 people were shot. The additional victims continued to come to the hospital to be treated for injuries.
The Sheriff’s Office stated in a statement that she was investigating “interested persons” and asked the public to contact the investigator Sergeant Duncan by phone 843-255-3418 with information.
“This is a tragic and difficult event for everyone,” the Sheriff said in a statement. “We ask your patience when we continue to investigate this event. Our thoughts are with all the victims and their relatives.”
St. Helena community where the shooting took place
The shooting took place on the spot, called “frogmore”, St. Helena Island Commercial Center between Beaufort and Hunting Island State Park, known in shops, restaurants and in the historic center of Penn. This site was the first lunch school for former enslaved people, which today focuses on education, social, environment and cultural development.
On Sunday at 10 p.m. The police tape was stretched between the power pillar and the tree behind the bar. The street sign in front of the bar was promoted: “Willie’s, great times, great food, great service, great choice.”
The yellow police tape marks the shooting site at Willie’s Bar the Grill Sunday morning.
It was the second shooting in recent memory. 2022 In November, when the bar was known as The Island Grill, two people were shot dead, but were not killed after the Rapid Fire shots that sounded in the parking lot at around the closing, the previous Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette said.
Four people were killed and several people were injured during shooting at a Willie bar and a barbecue St. On the Island of Helena in 2025. October 12, Sunday.
The chef heard the shooting
“It’s crazy, said Henry Wright, a chef at a bar that was when a gun fire erupted because it was on a parking lot on Sunday.
“I heard a lot of shots,” Wright said.
“It’s crazy,” Willie’s Bar and Grill cook Henry Wright of early Sunday shooting, 2025. October 12, in a bar that left four dead and many others injured.
According to him, the shooting took place outside the bar. This sent everyone inside the rear door. He said one died was found at the front steps of the bar. He said two more victims, who died, fell to the ground in front of the institution.
One of the victims, Wright, was a “little girl”, a teenager, maybe about 17 years old.
Robert Adams said he had heard the automatic weapon fire “like a machine gun”. Adams is the Executive Director of Penn Center and lives in the ownership of a historic school just off the road from the bar from the bar Martin Luther King Jr Drive.
The yellow police tape marks the shooting site at Willie’s Bar the Grill Sunday morning.
On Sunday morning, he cleaned up trash in the park across the street from the bar. He said the trash and parking lots often arise with too big events in Willie’s.
“It attracted many problems,” Adams said.
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