4 teens dead in less than 24 hours in small South Carolina city

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Four teens in a small South Carolina city were killed over the weekend in what a local official described Monday as a “tragic 24 hours.”

Newberry Police chief Kevin Goodman told reporters that the teens, ages 15 to 19, were found with gunshot wounds Sunday at two locations within a block of each other in the city of roughly 10,000.

Authorities were still trying to determine whether the shootings were connected, but Goodman said Monday that the teens were “at least associates and within the same social circle.”

"As someone who loves the community, someone who loves the youth in this community, I am in disbelief and I hurt to the core," he said. "We're losing our young people at an alarming rate."

A motive in the shootings wasn’t yet known and no suspects have been identified.

MyKain Davis, 16, was found just after midnight Sunday west of downtown Newberry, Goodman said. He later died at a local hospital.

At 2:51 that afternoon, authorities found three people identified by Newberry County Coroner Laura Kneece as Jahquindon Toland, 18; Jhisere Robinson, 15; and Sonterrious Davis, 19.

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