{"id":195422,"date":"2025-10-12T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195422\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:08:10","slug":"south-carolina-shooting-at-crowded-bar-leaves-4-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195422\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina shooting at crowded bar leaves 4 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When police and first responders arrived, they found several people suffering from gunshot wounds, the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s not clear if the shooting was random or targeted, and a spokesperson for the sheriff&#8217;s office declined to share more details. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bar where the shooting took place, Willie&#8217;s Bar and Grill, offers Gullah-inspired cuisine and says on its website that it aims to spread the &#8220;heartwarming spirit of the Gullah Geechee culture&#8221;. The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved on plantations along the south-eastern US coast, including in South Carolina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;COMPLETELY HEARTBROKEN to learn about the devastating shooting in Beaufort County,&#8221; South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our prayers are with the victims, their families, and everyone impacted by this horrific act of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Willie&#8217;s did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When police and first responders arrived, they found several people suffering from gunshot wounds, the sheriff&#8217;s office said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-195422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}