Man killed in Saturday afternoon shooting on Lady’s Island identified, police say
This story will be updated as more details become available.
A man was found dead inside a home after a shooting Saturday on Lady’s Island, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to a home on Brickyard Point Road North on Lady’s Island at around 5:30 p.m. for a call about a gunshot victim, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Bob Bromage said. When deputies got to the home, they found the man inside and said he had died of a “gunshot wound or wounds.”
The man was identified Sunday afternoon as 47-year-old Laventis Cohen, according to an alert Sunday from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
No public safety threat was perceived at the time of the shooting, according to Saturday’s alert, and a “person of interest” was found at the home.
No arrests have been made as of Sunday afternoon, according to the Beaufort County Detention Center jail log.
This comes just a day after deputies found a 23-year-old Port Royal man dead in the parking lot of All My Sons Moving & Storage in Bluffton. No arrests have been made in Friday’s shooting.
The investigation into the shooting on Lady’s Island is still ongoing, Bromage said.
Anyone with information may call Sgt. J.D. Tunis at (843) 255-3426.
This story was originally published October 17, 2021 at 8:29 AM.
