{"id":208357,"date":"2025-10-12T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208357\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:55:08","slug":"willies-bar-and-grill-on-st-helena-island-hit-by-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208357\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie&#8217;s Bar and Grill on St Helena Island hit by fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic US island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred early on Sunday (late on Sunday AEDT) at Willie&#8217;s Bar and Grill on St Helena Island in South Carolina, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>A large crowd was at the scene when sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived and found several people suffering from gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a890d20e-8f0f-4c5a-a230-03e034a56020.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic US island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Multiple victims and witnesses ran to the nearby businesses and properties seeking shelter from the gun shots,&#8221; the Beaufort County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a statement on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tragic and difficult incident for everyone. We ask for your patience as we continue to investigate this incident. Our thoughts are with all of the victims and their loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four people were found dead at the scene, and at least 20 other people were injured. Among the injured, four were in critical condition at area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The victims&#8217; identities were not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic US island has left four people dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-208357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}