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ArticleAfter latest Hilton Head shoot­ing, lead­ers call gun viol­ence a ‘crisis’

On Oct. 12, gun­fire erup­ted between two feud­ing groups at Wil­lie’s Bar and Grill, a water­ing hole on rural St. Helena Island, with bul­lets strik­ing 20 and killing four. The tragedy sparked emo­tional prayer vigils across Beaufort and the Sea...

ArticleHilton Head Island to explore juven­ile curfew after shoot­ing

ArticleHilton Head busi­ness own­ers call for more super­vi­sion

For dec­ades, Hilton Head Island res­id­ents have debated whether town and county offi­cials are doing enough to pre­vent crime. Some argue the town should cre­ate its own police force, like most other muni­cip­al­it­ies in Beaufort County. Oth­ers...

ArticleSixth sus­pect in shoot­ing charged with machine gun pos­ses­sion

A sixth per­son has been arres­ted and charged in con­nec­tion to the Fourth of July shoot­ing at Coligny Beach, and police allege he pos­sessed a machine gun. The Beaufort County Sher­iff’s Office announced Fri­day the arrest of Amarion Jameer Riley,...

ArticleWas the Coligny Beach incid­ent a mass shoot­ing? Why the sher­iff says no

At a July 5 press con­fer­ence fol­low­ing gun­fire that injured eight on Coligny Beach on the Fourth of July, Beaufort County Sher­iff P.J. Tan­ner said the incid­ent was “not a mass shoot­ing.” “This is not a mass shoot­ing. This is not a mass...

ArticleSHOOTING

Tan­ner said. HOW THE CURFEW WOULD WORK At a spe­cial Hilton Head Island Town Coun­cil Meet­ing Thursday, BCSO Gen­eral Coun­sel Daniel Gour­ley asked the coun­cil to enact an 8 p.m. curfew to give law enforce­ment the “neces­sary tools” to detain,...