{"id":76452,"date":"2025-10-12T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76452\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:57:07","slug":"four-killed-and-20-injured-in-mass-shooting-in-us-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76452\/","title":{"rendered":"Four killed and 20 injured in mass shooting in US \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A mass shooting at a crowded bar in South Carolina has left four people dead and at least 20 injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local officials said the incident occurred early on Sunday at Willie\u2019s Bar and Grill on St Helena Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A large crowd was at the scene when emergency services arrived and found several people with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Beaufort County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement on X: \u201cMultiple victims and witnesses ran to the nearby businesses and properties seeking shelter from the gun shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">\u201cThis is a tragic and difficult incident for everyone. We ask for your patience as we continue to investigate this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/us\/2025\/09\/13\/blame-game-over-charlie-kirk-shooting-exposes-dangerous-political-divide-in-the-us\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blame game over Charlie Kirk shooting exposes dangerous political divide in the USOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Four people were found dead at the scene and at least 20 other people were injured. Among the injured, four are in a critical condition at area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The victims\u2019 identities have not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">St Helena Island is considered the largest Gullah community on the South Carolina coast. An estimated 5,000 or more people living there are descended from slaves who worked on rice plantations in the area. \u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mass shooting at a crowded bar in South Carolina has left four people dead and at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,115],"class_list":["post-76452","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","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}