This archive report was first published on 22 September 2019.
On September 21, 2019, a shooting occurred at the Old Skool Sports Bar & Grill near Lancaster, South Carolina, leaving two people dead and eight others wounded.
The incident happened around 2:45 a.m. at the sports bar, which is located in a commercial area of town, about 60 miles north of Columbia, South Carolina.
According to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, 10 people were shot, with two fatalities and one person treated for injuries sustained in a fall while trying to flee the club.
Four victims were airlifted to medical centers, and another four were treated for noncritical injuries.
Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile described the incident as 'a violent incident of huge magnitude that was witnessed by lots of people.'
Although a motive for the shooting was unclear, Douglas Barfield Jr., a spokesman for the sheriff's office, stated that the shooting was the result of a local conflict.
Barfield said that the conflict had been ongoing for a couple of months and that one of the people killed was involved in the dispute.
Neither the victim involved in the dispute nor the person officials were seeking as the gunman were legally allowed to have guns, according to Sheriff Faile.
He stated that they were 'federally prohibited from previous convictions.'
The Lancaster County coroner, Karla Knight Deese, identified the fatal shooting victims as Henry Lee Colvin, 29, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, and Aaron Harris, 28, of Kershaw, South Carolina.
Deese described the sheer magnitude of injury as 'like none I have seen in my 14 years with the coroner's office.'
The identities and conditions of the survivors were not immediately available.
