3 people were shot and 2 were killed at South Carolina state University. Henry Crittington and Terrell Thomas were murdered in the mass shooting
19-year-old Henry Crittington and 18-year-old Terrell Thomas were shot and killed during a mass shooting at South Carolina State University located in Orangeburg, SC. Follow Charlotte Alerts on Instagram. A third unidentified student at the university was shot also. Terrell was a father to one-year-old twin girls and he played football in high school.
The shooting was inside a dorm room at South Carolina State University. Henry and Terrell were not students at the college. Rather, they were visiting friends.
They were all in the dorm room along with others when an argument broke out. Shots were fired and Henry, Terrell, and the student at the school were shot. There has been plenty of violent news coming out of South Carolina.
It is unknown who fired the shots, but other students in the dorm room ran from the scene. Students in the building heard the shots and got scared.
Campus police were called to the scene. Terrell and Henry died on scene. Blood filled bed sheets and pillow cases. The shot student survived and was transported to the hospital. No arrests have been made. A number of mass shootings have plagued the United States. Click here to see all the mass shootings.
South Carolina State University was placed on lock down for several hours upon the double murder and triple shooting. In October 2025 a teen female at South Carolina State University was murdered on campus during a shooting.
