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Isle of Palms Beach Shooting

Produce, Aired on WSPA: 4.8.23


{ANCHOR ON CAM}

A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE--

POLICE SAY TWO PEOPLE ARE NOW IN CUSTODY... AFTER A SHOOTING THAT INJURED 6 PEOPLE -- ON THE ISLE OF PALM BEACH

{NAT}

**people running and screaming - 3 seconds"

{ANCHOR VOCONT}

THATS A LOOK FROM LAST NIGHT... AS THE CROWD RAN FUN GUNFIRE ON THE BEACH.

THIS HAPPENED JUST BEFORE 5-30 NEAR OCEAN BOULEVARD.

OFFICERS SAY TEENAGERS HAD GATHERED THEIR FOR SENIOR SKIP DAY

AND THAT FIVE OF THE 6 VICTIMS WERE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 15 AND 16.

BUT-- ALL OF THEM ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK.

POLICE SAY ONE OF THE SUSPECTS ARRESTED WAS A 16-YEAR-OLD... WHO WAS IN POSSESSION OF A STOLEN GUN.

THE OTHER SUSPECT IS 18.

{SOTX2}

{Sheriff Kristin Graziano/Charleston County Sheriff's Office} (AT 2:47)

"There's absolutely no reason anybody should be carrying a gun to the beach. Absolutely no reason. And you have innocent bystanders that were victims of that."

BUTT TO

{Kevin Cornett/Chief of Police, Isle of Palms Police Department} (AT 4:06)

"it is devastating to me that we have a community anywhere where children are injured, where children are involved in violence, where children think it is okay to commit any violent act. It is not okay."

{ANCHOR VOCONT}

LAW ENFORCEMENT IS STILL INVESTIGATING.




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