Senior skip day shooting injures 6 at South Carolina beach
A South Carolina beach partially filled with high school students participating in a “senior skip day” led to a shooting that injured six. A South Carolina beach partially filled with high school students participating in a “senior skip day” descended into chaos Friday afternoon as gunfire injured at least six beachgoers. Isle of Palms Police Chief Kevin Cornett said that five of the six injured were teenagers, though one older beach goer was also injured. Police were already at the beach responding to two fights when the shooting began around roughly 5:20 p.m. on Friday afternoon, according to Cornett. “A large crowd of individuals that apparently were part of a group from senior skip day had gathered on the beach ,” Cornett said at an evening press conference. “There were a couple of altercations that took place and during one of those altercations, there were several shots that were fired.” Cornett said that his department has multiple suspects in custody, though they do not know ...