COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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.

Freeman and a man who ended up being killed in the shooting had an encounter “that was not very friendly” and started shooting at each other, Tanner said.

Freeman was shot in the stomach and driven to the hospital, the sheriff said.

Investigators have determined

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