Song request may have sparked mass shooting at Lancaster club

LANCASTER, S.C. — It took only minutes Thursday for a judge in Lancaster to decide to keep a man charged in a mass shooting locked up.

Breante Stevens, 31, was charged with two murders after sheriff’s deputies said he shot 10 people at the Ole’ Skool sports club on Highway 521 back on Sept. 21.

Stevens was in court Thursday afternoon, asking to be let out of jail.

Detailing the case before a judge, prosecutors said that inside the club, Henry Colvin, one of the two men who was killed, requested a rap song that Stevens considered disrespectful to him.

That may have led to an angry confrontation, then murder, prosecutors said.

Deputy solicitor Lisa Collins said on the night of the mass shooting, more than 100 people were crammed into the Ole Skool sports club, standing shoulder to shoulder.

“It’s a miracle by God’s hand that more people were not injured or killed,” Collins said.

Collins said Stevens got into an argument with Colvin, then walked out of the club and came back in armed. Arrest warrants said he got on the stage and began firing into the crowd.

Collins described what the cameras inside the club captured.

"You can see it's like a wave of people as they react and fall back from the shooting, trying to head toward the exits," she said. Cameras also appear to show Stevens had a gun in each hand.

A second victim, Aaron Harris, was shot in the heart yet managed to run outside before he died. Colvin was shot multiple times in the chest and died inside as the capacity crowd rushed for the doors.

As deputies arrived at the club, the club crowd scattered. There were very few people still there to provide initial statements to investigators. Of the other eight people shot, at least four had very serious injuries.

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Once named as a suspect, deputies said Stevens fled to South Florida, where he was caught days later. Bond was denied for Stevens after prosecutors called him a “textbook example of a danger to the community.”

A second suspect, Antonia Champion, was also charged with murder. He remains in jail with no bond as well.

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