Police investigate 3 shootings over the weekend in northern Beaufort Co. What we know
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating three shootings over Halloween weekend in northern Beaufort County. None of the shootings resulted in injuries.
The first shooting happened about 2:32 a.m. Saturday on Possum Hill Road in Burton, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office report. Five people were placed in handcuffs and detained before being released, police said. Deputies found an assortment of shell casings in the front yard and in the road, the report said.
Deputies responded to a call just before 10 p.m. Saturday of shots fired near Seabrook Center Road and Fawnwood Lane, according to a police report. A man in the road directed police to a family gathering on Fawnwood Lane where he says there were “people arguing,” police said in the report.
When officers arrived, the family sent them to Seabrook Center Road, where deputies found five 9mm casings and two .45 caliber casings near a home where a large party was being held. Guests at the party told police they didn’t hear any shots fired and did not know what happened, the report said.
Around 10 p.m., deputies responded to Poppy Hill Road in Grays Hill after a woman said someone shot at her while she was driving her boyfriend’s car, according to the report. The woman told police she was heading north on Trask Parkway, preparing to turn onto Poppy Hill Road, when an “unknown person in an unknown vehicle” shot at her.
The woman told police she heard about eight shots fired, according to the report, and her back windshield shattered. A back tire on the driver’s side deflated from the shots, police said in the report. Deputies found four bullet holes in the back of the car and four in the headrest of the driver’s seat, and one appeared to have hit the front windshield, according to the report. Two bullet holes were also found in the back bumper on the driver’s side, the report said. No shell casings were found in the street, according to deputies.
Beaufort County Sheriff’s spokesperson, Maj. Bob Bromage, said no arrests had been made as of Tuesday afternoon. There are “no known connections” in the shootings, and the investigations are ongoing, Bromage said.
Anyone with information on any of the shootings may call Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry at (843)554-1111.
