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Authorities on Monday identified three men and a woman who were killed during a weekend mass shooting at a bar on a South Carolina island. At least 20 other people were injured.
Willie’s bar The Grill and Grill on St. Helena Island was crowded with people, including many who attend Battery Creek High School, when the shooting began on Sunday. beaufort And were at the bar for an alumni event.
Flower And candles were placed outside the bar Monday as the Beaufort County coroner’s office identified the dead as 22-year-old Kashawn Glaze, 33-year-old Chirad Smalls, 54-year-old Amos Gary and 22-year-old Ashantek Milledge.
Sheriff’s Lt. Danny Allen said Monday that investigators had no new information to share.
“It’s hard to have your name on the door and not feel the burden of what’s going on,” bar owner Willie Turell told WCSC-TV.
Willie’s Bar serves Gullah-inspired cuisine and describes itself on its website as “not just a restaurant but a community pillar, committed to giving back, especially to our youth.”
It is estimated that the 5,000 or more Gullah people living on the island trace their ancestry to enslaved West Africans who worked rice plantations in the area before being freed by the Civil War.
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The coroner’s office said this story has been updated to correct the first name to Chirad Smalls, not Sherrod.