The operator of the St. Helena Island bar where an October mass shooting killed four eventually chose to shut down the restaurant amid mounting pressure from local officials.
Now, he says he’s been wrongfully locked out of the building.
A lawsuit filed Monday by Willie Turral alleges his landlords, James and Bernice Wright, changed the locks to the building on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in early January. In the lawsuit, Turral alleges his landlords denied him access to his possessions inside, despite Turral paying rent in advance and the lack of an official eviction order…