Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are working an “active shooter situation,” according to Charles Francis, a spokesman for the Charleston Police Department. Police are asking people to avoid the area downtown.
Witnesses say a man walked out of a local restaurant’s kitchen with a loaded revolver and said: “there’s a new boss in town,” the Post and Courier reports.
King btwn Calhoun & Morris blocked to motorist & pedestrian traffic active shooter in 400 block of King people to avoid the area.
— Charleston P.D. (@CharlestonPD) August 24, 2017
Dispatch: 'Active situation,' reported shooting on King Street in downtown Charleston https://t.co/Xn48oqIOp5 #chsnews #scnews pic.twitter.com/VtLKGGtkYj
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) August 24, 2017
