Two people shot at fast-food restaurant in SC; teenager is arrested, police say

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Two people shot at fast-food restaurant in SC; teenager is arrested, police say

A teenager was arrested Saturday and a search is underway for another person after a shooting at a fast-food restaurant in Lexington County, according to the

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Two people were

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, police said Sunday in a news release.

At about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to the

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, according to the release. That’s less than two miles from the Meeting Street bridge to downtown Columbia.

The victims received medical treatment for what police called non-life-threatening injuries. Further information on the victims’ conditions was not available.

No other injuries were reported.

Later Saturday night, 18-year-old Marterius Byrd was arrested on two counts of attempted ******* and a single charge of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, police said.

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on the attempted ******* charges and Byrd remains in the Lexington County Detention Center, jail records show.

Police said they are searching for a second suspect, but did not identify the person nor say what charges they would face.

Information about a motive for the shooting was not available, and it was not known whether the shooter and the victims knew one another prior to the incident at Bojangles.

Police said they are continuing to investigate the shooting.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 888-CRIMESC or

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Violence at Bojangles in Lexington County

A month ago a

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in an unrelated incident at another Bojangles in the Midlands.

On Nov. 15, a 40-year-old

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in the parking lot of the

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, according to the Columbia Police Department. She was taken to an area hospital, where she died, according to Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher.

The victim was not the shooter’s intended target, but was hit when the shooter fired at a vehicle multiple times in an attempt to hurt two other people, Columbia police said.

In 2022, an employee at another Bojangles in Lexington County

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The 21-year-old victim was shot multiple times, according to the coroner’s office. He was shot after an argument with a 20-year-old who also worked at the fast-food restaurant

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the Chapin Police Department said.

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