Another person has been arrested in relation to the multiple shootings at South Carolina State University that killed one and injured two others over homecoming weekend on Oct. 4, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced Thursday.
Jimmy Lee Thompson, Jr., an 18-year-old from Lexington County, was charged with carrying a weapon on school property, according to a news release. He was booked into the Orangeburg County Detention Center.
Thompson had a loaded handgun that SLED found under a chair in a common area at the Hugine Suites Building, a student residence hall at S.C. State, according to an arrest warrant. Thompson had been sleeping in the chair and was the only occupant of the common area at the time…