US Gun Violence: Second Incident In South Carolina, Shooting At Nightclub In Hampton County Leaves Nine Injured

As per South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division no one was reported killed in the violence at Cara’s Lounge in Hampton County.

It was the second mass shooting in the state and third in the nation during the Easter holiday weekend (Representational) | Photo: AFP

New Delhi: Mass shooting at a club in South Carolina’s Hampton County earlier on Sunday left nine people injured, said the South Carolina authorities, reported by news agency The Associated Press (AP). 

As per South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division no one was reported killed in the violence at Cara’s Lounge in Hampton County.

It was the second mass shooting in the state and third in the nation  during the Easter holiday weekend. The shootings in South Carolina and one in Pittsburgh, had left two minors killed and at least 31 people wounded.

Two male youths were killed and at least 8 injured in Pittsburg where shots were fired during a party at a short term rental property. The vast majority of hundreds of people who attended the party were underage, said the city’s Police Chief Scott Schubert, quoted by the news agency. 

A day before the two shootings, gunfire had erupted at a busy mall in South Carolina’s state capital of Columbia, about 145 kilometres north of Sunday’s nightclub shooting.  

Nine people were shot, and five people sustained other kinds of injuries while trying to flee the scene at the Columbiana Centre, Columbia Police Chief W.H. Skip Holbrook said Saturday. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 73. None faced life-threatening injuries.

The Police did not believe the incident to be a random one, said Holbrook adding that it was suspected that they knew each other which led to the gunfire. 

One person Jewayne M. Price, 22, has been arrested while three people were initially detained by the law enforcement as person of interest.