ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has arrested a man in connection with the university’s shootings nearly four weeks ago.

Jamarion Jabari Jones, 19, of Abbeville County, is charged with carrying a weapon on school property.

Two shootings occurred the evening of Oct. 4. One woman, 19-year-old Jaliyah Butler, was killed in one of the shootings and a man was injured in the second shooting. SLED agents believe the shootings are connected.

The affidavit stated that Jones had a gun stored in a bookbag while on campus that night. SLED agents reviewed the campus’s footage from Hugine Suites and it showed him carrying a gun around.

Jones told SLED agents that he was the person who the person shown with a gun on the surveilance footage.

He was booked i

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