Man charged with 4 counts of murder in mass shooting at South Carolina bar

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. — Authorities have charged a man with murder in a mass shooting that killed four people and injured 15 more last month at a bar on a South Carolina island.

Anferny Freeman, 27, was already in jail on a charge of possessing a machine gun when investigators served arrest warrants on him Friday, Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner said.

About 350 people were at a 25th high school reunion party in the early morning of Oct. 12 when gunfire broke out at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island, deputies said…

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