Police negotiating with 'disgruntled employee' after 1 shot at restaurant in downtown Charleston
Paramedics have carried a person out on a stretcher out of Virginia's on King.
About 20 minutes earlier a loud boom, that did not necessarily sound like a gun shot, rang in the area.
Charleston police say one person has been shot and hostages remain trapped inside Virginia's on King restaurant with an "active shooter." -- More...
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