Hilton Head shooting suspect arrested in California. Now, he’s being held in Beaufort Co.

A Hilton Head Island man charged with shooting two people on the island in September has been booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office release.

Reginald “Reggie” Bascom Jr., 25, was found and arrested in Sacramento, California, by the U.S. Marshals Service on October 3, the release said. The marshals traveled across the country and returned Bascom to Beaufort County Monday morning.

Bacsom is charged with two counts of attempted murder, possession of a weapon in the commission of a violent crime and discharging a firearm into a dwelling. He has not had his bond hearing yet, the release said.

The Sept. 16 shooting Bascom is charged in left one man shot in the torso and a second shot in the hand and happened on Blazing Star Lane just off of Squire Pope Road.

Lana Ferguson

The Island Packet

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Lana Ferguson typically covers stories in northern Beaufort County, Jasper County and Hampton County. She joined The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette in 2018 as a crime/breaking news reporter. Before coming to the Lowcountry, she worked for publications in her home state of Virginia and graduated from the University of Mississippi, where she was editor-in-chief of the daily student newspaper. Lana was also a fellow at the University of South Carolina’s Media Law School in 2019. Support my work with a digital subscription