5/30 NEWSBREAK: 1 dead, 5 injured in Charleston Co. shooting

The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said one person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting near a nightclub in the Hollywood area Monday night just before 10 p.m. It occurred on Storage Road near Church Hill Road.

CCSO spokesman Andrew Knapp said deputies found one person inside a vehicle who was pronounced dead at the scene, while the five others who were injured were taken to nearby area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.

Deputies initially responded two hours prior to the shooting, following reports of a large crowd on Storage Road. No arrests have been made in relation to the shooting as of this morning.

Meanwhile, three people were injured in a Summerville shooting Saturday night. One person is in custody charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol, according to the Summerville Police Department. The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim in a Saturday night shooting in Moncks Corner where one person is in custody.

CP OPINION: Brack: McMaster needs to learn to apologize

“The governor, who often sounds like Foghorn Leghorn these days, had this to say to fellow Republicans last week at a state convention: ‘I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs.’ Umm. Not funny, governor. Really not funny. Even if you claim you’ve been saying it for years, it has never been funny.”

CP, Darby: No Labels ticket is a bad idea

“Mr. Cunningham’s column argument is primarily based on a recent ABC News-Washington Post poll that shows President Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump. Experience has taught me that there’s a difference between a single provocative poll result and an identifiable trend. “

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CP: Gaillard highlights Southern stories, international artists. The Charleston Gaillard Center announced its largest ever season for 2023-2024, including more than 40 shows spanning dance, theater and music and continues to bring internationally acclaimed dance, theater and music performances and caters to an estimated 25,000 students through its educational programming.

CP: Void tackles addiction in second play ‘Ship’. The Void, a six-month-old Charleston-based theater company returns this summer with its second play SHIP, written by Douglas Williams and directed by Clyde Moser.

CP: Meet the team of Syracuse journalists covering festivals in Charleston. Arts coverage for the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto will be deeper and broader than ever before in the Charleston City Paper with eight arts journalists from Syracuse helping provide coverage for this year’s events.

CP: S.C. judge blocks six-week abortion ban. Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman put South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.

Funeral for Reynolds set for Tuesday. Police Chief Luther Reynolds died on May 22 from cancer at age 56, and the Holy City will get to say farewell at a Celebration of Life service Tuesday in Mount Pleasant at 11 a.m.

S.C. group to ask U.S. Supreme Court to rename landmark school desegregation case. Civil rights leaders in South Carolina plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to rename the landmark Brown v. Board of Education to the South Carolina case Briggs v. Elliott that was filed earlier but is lesser known.

Charleston Co. adopts affordable housing plan. Charleston County leaders adopted and moved to implement the “Housing Our Future” plan, which will serve as the official framework guiding County Council and participating municipalities on how and when to implement different strategies.

Nationwide initiative to increase Black American voters launched in Charleston. Local and state elected officials gathered Saturday morning in Charleston with the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and launched Democracy for the People, a national effort focusing on voter education, voter registration and training.

Charleston economic development group talks about 30 years of progress. Charleston County Economic Development is celebrating 30 years since the region’s Navy base closure. Since then, the group has helped to generate more than 39,000 jobs and $6.9 billion in investments by firms such as Boeing Co. and Mercedes-Benz Vans.

Two finalists for top Charleston Co. schools job withdraw candidacy. Two of the three finalists being considered for Charleston County’s next school superintendent have withdrawn their candidacies in the final days of the district’s search.

MUSC doctors see spike in invasive Strep cases. Doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston say cases of a certain type of strep have risen in children, raising concerns among parents and medical professionals. The doctors are calling this trend “very, very unusual.”