By Delayna Earley
The Island News
A 17-year-old girl was killed in a shooting at a Burton apartment complex on Sunday, Sept. 15.
She was one of three minors that was shot during an altercation in the parking lot, the other two were transported to Beaufort Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Ari’Anna Mulligan, 17, of Beaufort was pronounced dead on Monday just after midnight after she was airlifted to the Medical University of South Carolina, according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office.
Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office responded to multiple reports of shots fired at Magnolia Park Apartments around 10 p.m. on Sunday. The complex is located off of Laurel Bay Road in Burton.
Law enforcement found three juveniles in the parking lot who had been shot, but according to BCSO the incident is still under investigation.
Mulligan went into cardiac arrest during her flight to MUSC. She was first taken to Beaufort Memorial Hospital before being transferred.
According to Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Master Sgt. Danny Allen, as of Tuesday afternoon, there had been no arrests.
The apartment complex in question is about 10 miles away from another shooting that took place about 6 hours after this one.
A home in Dale was struck by bullets, but no one inside was injured.
Anyone with information regarding these two incidents should call Master Sgt. Duncan at 843-255-3418 or submit online at BSCO.net.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
