据波弗特县警长办公室称，周日早些时候，南卡罗来纳州圣赫勒拿岛一家酒吧发生枪击事件，至少4人死亡，16人受伤。
枪击事件发生在凌晨1点左右，地点是位于圣赫勒拿岛马丁路德路7号的Willie's Bar and Grill，该岛位于佐治亚州萨凡纳以北约一小时车程的地方。据治安官办公室称。
根据警长办公室的说法，当代表们到达现场时，酒吧里有一大群人，其中几个人受了枪伤。
警长办公室称，现场有四人被宣布死亡。
官员们最初报告说有4人死亡，20人受伤，但后来向美国广播公司澄清说，受伤者包括遇难者。
“据悉，枪击发生时，数百人在现场。根据警长办公室的声明，许多受害者和目击者跑到附近的商店和物业寻求躲避枪击的地方。
警长办公室表示，在医院接受治疗的20名受害者中，有4人情况危急。
警长办公室说，几名受害者被救护车送往医院，但其他在枪击中受伤的人自己出现在急诊室。
虽然警长办公室表示正在调查一名“相关人员”，但没有人被宣布逮捕
官员们说，在通知他们的亲属之前，在枪击中丧生的受害者的名字被保留。
“这对每个人来说都是一个悲惨和艰难的事件，”警长办公室在声明中说。“在我们继续调查这一事件时，我们请求您的耐心。
威利酒吧兼烧烤店的老板威利·特拉尔告诉美国广播公司下属电台WJCL在萨凡纳，在他的酒吧外发生枪击后，这场“大混乱”在酒吧爆发了。
“我不确定到底发生了什么。枪击发生了，但它发生在外面，我在里面，”特拉尔告诉WJCL。“但我可以告诉你，在里面，我可以听到像机关枪开火的声音。”
特拉尔补充说，“我可以看到成群的人进来。事情发生得太快了，地上只有尸体，人们试图躲避。”
他说，当他走到外面时，他看到护理人员在停车场对受害者进行心肺复苏。
“这是不真实的，”特拉尔说。
特拉尔说，枪击发生时，酒吧里挤满了当地一所高中的校友，当时该高中正在举办一场活动。他说他已经雇了一个专业的保安人员过夜。图尔拉尔说，他认识一名遇难者，一名安全官员，是他父亲最好朋友的儿子。
“我们前一天晚上谈过，所以离家很近，”特拉尔说。
他说，在枪击发生前，“这是你在校友聚会上想要的一切。我的意思是，人们在微笑，人们在跳舞，人们在享受美妙的时光。”他补充说，就在枪击发生前，他召集了他的工作人员，为到那时为止的“成功之夜”干杯。
“这就像一个完全的逆转，”特拉尔说，拍摄。“我听到了枪声。我像其他人一样躺在地上。”
代表博福特县的共和党众议员南希·梅斯在一份声明中说社交媒体帖子得知波弗特县发生的毁灭性枪击事件，她“非常伤心”。
梅斯说:“我们为受害者、他们的家人以及受到这一可怕暴力行为影响的每一个人祈祷。”。
梅斯要求任何知道大规模枪击事件信息的人“尽可能快地”联系博福特县治安官办公室。
At least 4 killed, 16 injured in bar shooting in St. Helena Island, South Carolina: Sheriff
At least four people were killed and 16 injured early Sunday in a shooting at a bar in St. Helena Island, South Carolina, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. at Willie’s Bar and Grill, 7 Dr. Martin Luther Drive on St. Helena Island, located about an hour north of Savannah, Ga., according to the sheriff's office.
When deputies arrived at the scene, there was a large crowd at the bar with several people suffering from gunshot wounds, according to the sheriff's office.
Four people were pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff's office said.
Officials initially reported four dead and 20 injured but later clarified to ABC News that the injured included the victims who were killed.
"It was learned that hundreds of people were at the location when the shooting occurred. Multiple victims and witnesses ran to the nearby businesses and properties seeking shelter from the gun shots," according to the statement from the sheriff's office.
Of the 20 victims being treated at hospitals, four were in critical condition, the sheriff's office said.
Several victims were taken to hospitals by ambulance, but other people injured in the shooting showed up at emergency rooms on their own, the sheriff's office said.
No arrests have been announced in the incident, though the sheriff's office said it was investigating a "person of interest."
The names of the victims killed in the shooting are being withheld pending notification of their relatives, officials said.
"This is a tragic and difficult incident for everyone," the sheriff's office said in its statement. "We ask for your patience as we continue to investigate this incident.
Willie Turral, the owner of Willie's Bar and Grill, told ABC affiliate stationWJCLin Savannah that "mayhem" broke out at the bar after gunfire erupted outside his establishment.
"I'm not sure of everything that took place in terms of what exactly happened. The shooting occurred, but it occurred outside and I was inside," Turral told WJCL. "But I could tell you from inside, I could hear what sounded like machine gun fire."
Turral added, "I could see the swarm of people coming in. Things happened so fast, just bodies on the ground, people just trying to duck for cover."
He said when he went outside, he saw paramedics performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on victims in the parking lot.
"It's unreal," Turral said.
Turral said the shooting occurred while the bar was full with alumni from a local high school that was hosting an event. He said he had hired a professional security staff for the night. Turral said he knew one of the victims killed, a security officer who is the son of his father's best friend.
"We spoke the night before and so it was real close to home," Turral said.
He said that before the shooting, "it was everything you would have wanted from an alumni party. I mean, people were smiling, people were dancing, people were having a fantastic time." He added that right before the shooting, he gathered members of his staff for a celebratory toast to what had been up to that point a "successful night."
"It was just like a complete reversal," Turral said of the shooting. "I heard the shots. I laid on the ground like everybody else."
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who represents Beaufort County, said in asocial media postthat she is "COMPLETELY HEARTBROKEN to learn about the devastating shooting in Beaufort County.
"Our prayers are with the victims, their families, and everyone impacted by this horrific act of violence," Mace said.
Mace asked that anyone with information about the mass shooting contact the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office "as soon as humanly possible.
