KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. — Kershaw County deputies are looking for suspects after a shooting on Interstate 20 Tuesday morning that left one person dead and two others wounded.
The shooting occurred between Mile Marker 88 and 89, just south of the Highway 601 exit to Lugoff in Kershaw County.
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office was alerted to the incident around 4:30 a.m. It involved at least two cars who were returning from a night out in Columbia.
"It started when they were coming back from a gentlemen’s club over on Broad River Road, they took I-20 back, and they were headed back to Bishopville," Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan said. "I think the majority of them live at and somewhere along the way this shooting took place."
Law enforcement first knew there was a problem when one of the cars came up to Camden after the shooting.
"A vehicle came through Camden, a Camden Police officer saw it at a high rate of speed, got behind it, turned on its blue lights," Boan said. "The vehicle didn’t stop and drove to the hospital. At that time [the people inside] exited the vehicle, and two people left running. [Deputies] got one in custody and three [others] had gunshot wounds, that they were being treated."
One of the victims in the car, 21-year-old Devin Simon of Lamar, later died at the hospital.
Authorities later received a 911 call from a woman pulled over on I-20 who was in another car involved in the incident.
"A female called 911, about 10 minutes after this incident happened, and she said she had been shot on the interstate," Boan said.
Law enforcement has not identified the suspects or determined how many vehicles were involved. However, they believe there were more vehicles than initially reported, and they assert that the crime was targeted, not random.
"They are connected, the driver of this vehicle and this vehicle owned the opposite vehicles, so we know they were all together."
They were either stopped or moving real slow when all of this was going on because casings were close together, and different calibers that tell you more than one person was involved," Sheriff Boan explained.
Authorities urge anyone with information on this case to contact the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Department or Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC. The investigation is ongoing, with law enforcement working diligently to piece together the events leading to this tragic incident.