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Ten individuals have been injured, together with a 17-year-old, in a taking pictures in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, police stated.
4 individuals have been hospitalized in important situation, Charleston Police Chief Luther Reynolds stated in a information convention Tuesday.
A police officer was additionally wounded by shrapnel and two sheriff’s deputies have been assaulted after responding to the scene, he stated.
One individual was arrested for disorderly conduct, and one other was arrested Tuesday morning, in accordance with Reynolds.
“We’re fortunate we don’t have a useless cop or useless residents,” Reynolds stated.
Late Monday evening, an officer responded to a noise criticism within the space of 41 South Avenue, the place there’s a vacant lot, in accordance with the chief.
“There was lots of people, and there was a loud celebration, which we had gotten requires,” Reynolds stated. Greater than 100 individuals attended the occasion, police stated.
“Instantly, the officer took gunfire. Two pictures went into his cruiser,” the chief stated. The officer was handled at a hospital for his shrapnel accidents and was launched, Reynolds stated.
A number of officers responded to the scene, in accordance with police, and a number of other vehicles have been hit by gunfire.
Sheriff deputies who responded have been assaulted and “injured in that melee,” Reynolds stated, including that they’ve since been launched from hospital and are “going to be okay.”
There have been greater than 100 proof markers within the crime scene that spanned “many blocks,” in accordance with Reynolds, and greater than half of them are shell casings.
Investigators have been out working the scene, and can “maintain working it till we make arrests,” the chief stated. “And we usually do make arrests, and I would like arrests on this. I would like accountability.”