2nd mass shooting victim files lawsuit against St. Helena Island bar
A second person hurt in a mass shooting at a St. Helena Island bar is suing the now-defunct business, claiming the operator violated the state’s alcohol laws by allowing the alleged shooter to become dangerously intoxicated.
The lawsuit against Willie Turral Food Services was filed Friday by Beaufort County resident Sundeya Clark. She says she was one of the 20 people shot in the Oct. 11 shooting during an alumni tailgate event at Willie’s Bar and Grill around 1 a.m., just before last call.
Four of the gunshot victims died in the shooting, authorities said, including one of the three suspected shooters: Beaufort man Kashawn “KK” Smalls-Glaze, 22.
In her lawsuit, Clark said she was “seriously and permanently injured” in the shooting, leading to physical pain and suffering, emotional anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, loss of income and the incurring of medical treatment and expenses.
Deputies in November charged 27-year-old St. Helena resident Anferny Freeman with four counts of murder in connection with the shooting. Police have not yet identified a possible third shooter.
Court documents claim Freeman arrived at Willie’s with a firearm prior to the shooting and was served excessive amounts of alcohol by bar staff. The lawsuit alleges the business was negligent in not recognizing the “dangerous state” of Freeman’s intoxication, not removing him from the premises and failing to implement adequate security measures.
Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner said the shooting arose from an “ongoing feud” between Glaze and Freeman. They and one other reportedly opened fire in the bar’s parking lot, sending hundreds of patrons running for their lives. Witnesses said they heard automatic gunfire.
The lawsuit’s claims largely mirror those from a December suit filed by Quinetta Clark, who said she was shot in the back during the incident. It was not immediately clear if the two plaintiffs were related.
Named as defendants in the first lawsuit were bar operator Willie Turral, Freeman and the former owners of the property on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. It claimed Turral and the landowners were to blame for not anticipating the shooting given the venue’s “known history of violence.”
In the days after the shooting, Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner lobbied local and state officials to terminate Turral’s liquor and business licenses, arguing the bar in St. Helena’s Frogmore community was a hub for violence that generated hundreds of calls to police over a decade-long period.
Turral initially said he would fight to keep his restaurant open but eventually announced plans to transform the space into an economic development center.
It was unclear if those plans would materialize. Turral filed his own lawsuit against his landlords in January, alleging they had unlawfully locked him out of the building. The suit was dismissed two days later, according to Beaufort County court records.
Turral and Jason Daigle, a North Charleston attorney representing Sundeya Clark, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday morning.
This story was originally published February 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM.
