Police say they responded to reports of gunfire at Haywood Mall and located two victims who have been transported to the hospital.

South Carolina police said two people were shot in a Greenville mall on June 13.

Greenville police responded to reports of gunfire at Haywood Mall and located two victims who have been transported to the hospital, according to police Sgt. Johnathan Bragg. Several people were detained.

Police and the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office cleared the mall. No other shots have been fired since officers arrived on the scene. 

A year ago, Haywood Mall released a statement saying it would be stepping up security following several reports of fighting at the mall.

“The safety and security of our shoppers, retailers, and employees is our highest priority,” according to the June 2025 statement from the mall to the Greenville News, part of the USA TODAY Network.

Authorities also stepped up security in and around the retail center, including increasing the police presence, the statement said.

Contributing: Terry Benjamin II, Greenville News

ESSENTIALS

Firm Name: Anderson Studio of Architecture and Design

Principals: Scott Anderson

Headquarters: Charleston, South Carolina

Accolades: Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Top 200 Residential Architects,” 2025; Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Best-in-State Residential Architects,” 2025

House Name: River Watch

Location: Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Area & Layout: 5,190 square feet, 5 BR, 7 BA

Architectural Photographers: Brennan Wesley (brennanwesley.com), Kelly Ferguson

Salt marshes and coastal waterways etch the edges of South Carolina’s southern shore, beguiling vacationers and residents alike with sublime scenery and southern charm. Asked to design a winter home for a globe-trotting family on Kiawah Island, one of the Lowcountry’s barrier islands, the team at Anderson Studio of Architecture and Design was confronted with a challenge: How do you elevate a house to take advantage of the views without compromising the views you’re celebrating—especially given a small, irregular lot with a cluster of specimen trees smack in the middle and another blocking the view?

“One of the most satisfying realizations was that the site wasn’t working against us—it was telling us exactly what to do,” says founder Scott Anderson. Honoring that directive, he angled the house to orient it toward the scenery (and away from neighbors), wrapping it around the trees so they became focal points instead of obstacles.

To downplay the home’s mass, Anderson took a counterintuitive approach. “We moved the ground plane up and the architecture down,” he says. Front steps wind around the oak cluster, depositing visitors in a raised entry hall set at base flood level. There, more stairs lead to an elevated first floor that’s crowned with a splayed gambrel roof. Although it conceals a full second floor, the roof creates the illusion that the house is much smaller than it actually is. “The home presents itself as low and grounded from the key vantage points that matter most,” Anderson says.

Such sleight-of-hand is commonplace for Anderson Studio, which specializes in designing houses that nod to historic styles but are more responsive to their settings and inhabitants than an actual period house might be. In the case of the Kiawah Island home, that meant breaking with period convention and lining the view side with window walls, and incorporating a variety of ceiling treatments to help define living spaces (and introduce a sense of scale) within the open plan.

“Each house is shaped by its own set of circumstances,” Anderson says. “Rather than developing a recognizable ‘style,’ we are more interested in creating homes that feel deeply rooted in place and deeply connected to the people who inhabit them.”