HOLLY HILL -- Investigators are questioning a man detained in connection with Monday’s shooting that sent a Moncks Corner man to a Charleston hospital.

“We’re holding a person in our jail that may have been involved,” Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dan Moon said.

Monday’s shooting resulted in Casey Simmons, 21, 202 Ambassador Lane, being airlifted after he was shot once in the chest at a location southeast of Holly Hill.

Simmons is in stable condition at the Medical University of South Carolina, officials say.

Investigators are still attempting to determine not only the cause of the altercation but its exact location. Orangeburg and Berkeley county detectives still haven’t decided which county the incident happened in.

Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said investigators from his county traveled to Charleston Thursday to speak with the victim.

Williams said the victim’s lack of familiarity with the area has left authorities without a clear-cut idea as to whose department should handle the case.

“We have a shooting that was reported to have occurred in Orangeburg County,” Williams said. “In fact, the victim is not clear where he was shot” in relation to the county line.

For the time being, both agencies are putting investigators in the field working the case.

“We’re working this investigation with Berkeley County in a joint investigation,” Williams said.

Moon said, “Our deputies went up there, our detectives went up there, the whole ball of wax was dispatched up there,” in an initial response.

Immediately after the shooting, the victim was transported to a Berkeley County fire station.

With the incident occurring near the county line, Orangeburg County deputies arrived and it was tentatively determined the shooting had taken place in Orangeburg County.

A Moncks Corner motorist told police that Simmons and another man flagged him down, stating Simmons had been shot. The motorist said that as he put Simmons in his vehicle, the other man drove off down nearby Coach Road, which is in Orangeburg County.

T&D Staff Writer Richard Walker can be reached by e-mail at rwalker@timesanddemocrat.com or by phone at 803-533-5516.

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