Sheriff: 2 Dead, 8 Hurt in South Carolina Nightclub Shooting

Sheriff: 2 Dead, 8 Hurt in South Carolina Nightclub Shooting
Lavish Lounge in Greenville, S.C., on July 5, 2020. Rebecca Santana/AP Photo
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GREENVILLE, S.C.—A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff’s official said.

Two Greenville County sheriff’s deputies noticed a disturbance at Lavish Lounge just before 2 a.m., and saw a large crowd running out of the building, Sheriff Hobart Lewis said at a press conference. There was “active gunfire from inside the building,” Lt. Jimmy Bolt said in an initial statement, and Lewis said all the shots were fired inside.