BEAUFORT — Deputies charged a 27-year-old St. Helena Island man for his role in the shooting at Willie’s Bar and Grill that left four people dead and 15 injured.

On Nov. 13, Anferny Devon Freeman was charged with four counts of murder, aggravated breach of peace and one count of possession of a weapon in commission of a violent crime. During a Nov. 14 hearing, his bond was deferred to circuit court.

The announcement by Sheriff P.J. Tanner came a month and two days since gunfire erupted in front of Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island , claiming four lives and injuring others. The sheriff explained that one person previously reported to have been shot was not, lowering the number of people injured by gunfire to 15.

In the course of the investigation, DNA evidence, guns and she

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