Teenager killed in shooting that left two other young women hurt, SC officials say
A teenager was killed Sunday in a shooting that left three other people hospitalized, including the gunman, according to South Carolina officials.
Isis Lorena Johnson, a 19-year-old Goose Creek resident, died from injuries she suffered in the shooting, Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell said in a news release.
At about noon, the coroner’s office responded to a shooting on Underwood Lane in Goose Creek, according to the release. That’s the Passage Apartments complex in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, about 23 miles from Charleston.
Johnson died at the scene, and her death was called a homicide, Hartwell said.
The Goose Creek Police Department said when officers responded to the apartment complex they found three females — including Johnson — who had been shot. The other victims, a 16- and 20-year-old, were taken to area hospitals, according to police. Further information on their conditions was not available.
While at the apartment complex officers learned a fourth person, an 18-year-old man, was also injured and had left the scene, according to police.
He was found when Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled over the vehicle that the man was driving as it entered the Roper St. Francis Berkeley hospital’s campus, police said. That’s about a mile from the apartment complex.
Investigators determined that the man shot the females before turning the gun on himself, according to police.
The three female victims were either in a vehicle or attempting to enter a vehicle when the man, called a relative, approached and shot the young women, police said.
The man, who has not been publicly identified, then shot himself and suffered what police called “a non-life-threatening injury.”
The man is in custody and will be taken to the Berkeley County Detention Center when he’s released from the hospital, police said.
Information about the charges he’s facing was not available.
There was no word on a motive for the shooting, which continues to be investigated by police and the coroner’s office.
Goose Creek Police Chief LJ Roscoe said he was grateful to the people who brought cold water to the officers and investigators that were on the scene at the apartment complex for nearly four hours in triple digit temperatures.
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This story was originally published July 15, 2024 at 11:51 AM with the headline "Teenager killed in shooting that left two other young women hurt, SC officials say."
