Witnesses, neighbors describe scene of two separate overnight shootings

Columbia Police are investigating two separate overnight shootings on Sunday. One of the shootings left one man with life-threatening injuries.

Rolling Rock Drive shooting

The first shooting happened just before midnight in the 1500 block of Rolling Rock Drive.

Police responded to the area after receiving a call about a 20-year-old man was shot. When the man was taken to the hospital, he had life-threatening injuries.

Detectives are still working to determine what led up to the man being shot.

ABC 17 News spoke with residents that live at the 1500 block of Rolling Rock Drive. Residents said that the neighborhood has mostly college-aged students living there, and all the residents on the block that we spoke with were shocked that it happened so close to them.

“I’m really shocked that something like that would happen, especially here,” said Jeff Larson,who has lived in the area for two-years.

“I wasn’t quite sure what was going on but it was interesting,” said Chip Jacobsen, a two-month resident.

“They had caution tape all over,” is how Jordan O’brien described the scene when he got home from his friends house.

Residents didn’t have little information on the people who lived in the home.

Business Loop Shooting

Three people arrived at hospitals early Sunday morning after being shot in a parking lot off Business Loop 70 east.

Columbia police were dispatched to the parking lot of 904 Business Loop 70 East, Ruckus Bar & Grill, at 1:20 a.m.

Police said they were first called to a disturbance in the area in front of Ruckus Bar and Grill. Police detained two people on scene but it’s unclear if they were arrested.

ABC 17 News spoke with people in the area and one resident who lives on North Boulevard, just doors a few down from the bar and grill, said he was packing his bags and moving because of all the crime in the area.

“There is very violent activity that goes on here,” Blake Morris said. “I was talking with my landlord several days ago and today we just basically had a real decision so I’m moving out today.”

Morris, a father of three, is moving to Ashland temporarily until he can find a safer place in Columbia to live he told ABC 17 News.

Morris said it was chaos in the streets before shots started to ring out.