A gunbattle in Blythewood last month among young people was so ferocious and dangerous that Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is calling it the “shootout at the O.K. Corral” after an 1881 Wild West gunfight between outlaws and lawmen.
But last month’s shootout in a crowd of some 200 youths didn’t involve lawmen and outlaws — the guns were fired by young people in their late teens and early 20s, Lott said at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
As bullets flew, young people stampeded away, falling down, and cars took off at high rates of speed, according to surveillance videos of the scene that Lott played to reporters…