A 24-year-old South Carolina woman has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting late July 6 at a sports bar in the Otranto Plaza strip mall in North Charleston.
22-year-old Zarria Mariah Gadsden died at the scene of the shooting at the North Park Grill in the 8700 block of Rivers Avenue from a gunshot wound, Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal said. Police said the shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Earlier on Thursday, North Charleston Police spokesman Harve Jacobs said 24-year-old Taneisha Brown surrendered herself to detectives. Brown faces charges of murder and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a violent crime, Jacobs said.
North Charleston police spokesman Harve Jacobs said Brown was booked into the Charleston County jail on charges of murder and a firearm offense.
Officers were dispatched around 11:30 p.m. to the sports bar following reports of a shooting, according to an incident report.
Officers found Gadsden on the floor near the business’ front door suffering from a gunshot wound, the report states. Several patrons tried to help her — one person tightened a belt around her arm as a makeshift tourniquet.
Efforts to resuscitate the Ladson woman were unsuccessful and she died at the scene, the report states. An officer found a shell casing near the front door.
The North Charleston Police Department and Charleston County Coroner’s Office are investigating.
Brown was booked into the Al Cannon Detention Center.
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