MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCIV) — Homicides in Berkeley County are significantly lower so far in 2026 compared to this time last year, according to officials, even as a deadly daytime shooting in Moncks Corner this week left a 19-year-old dead.
The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim as Austin Bile, 19, of Moncks Corner, who was killed Wednesday in a double shooting near Parker’s Kitchen on Foxbank Plantation Boulevard.
“Yesterday, unfortunately, we had two people that got shot,” Coroner Darnell Hartwell said. “A very tragic loss, very senseless situation that didn’t need it to happen.”…