Full Notification

On December 22, 2023, at approximately 10:34 p.m. Beaufort County Communications Center received a 911 call related to gunfire and a possible gunshot victim at 1460 Fording Island Road, Bluffton, SC.

When deputies arrived, they found a 26-year-old Bluffton man deceased in the parking lot. 

Within minutes of the original call, deputies were dispatched to a second gunshot victim located in a vehicle near the Bluffton Parkway on-ramp to Fording Island Road.  A man called 911 to report that his friend had been shot.  Deputies found a 25-year-old man in a vehicle with a gunshot wound.  He was transported to a Savannah area hospital for treatment.

Emergency services responding to the calls also located an 18-year-old Ridgeland teen lying in the middle of Buckingham Plantation Road suffering from gunshot wounds.  He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The three men were injured in a shooting incident that occurred at 1460 Fording Island Road.  The details surrounding this incident are under investigation.  There is not believed to be a threat to the public at this time.

Anyone with information about this event is encouraged to call the Beaufort County dispatch at 843-524-2777, or if wishing to remain anonymous, Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry at 843-554-1111.