COLUMBIA, S.C. — A security guard was stabbed outside a club when he tried to break up a fight Sunday night according to Richland County deputies.
Deputies responded to the R&B Club on Two Notch Road a little after 3 AM Sunday night for a fight in progress. When deputies arrived they found the security guard, who has a stab wound to the lower body. He said that a fight broke out inside the bar and that he got stabbed by an unknown person while trying to break it up.
He was transported to a local hospital.
While deputies were still at the club doing interviews, a different person arrived at the hospital with multiple stab wounds, that person said that he was stabbed after several people jumped whim while he was outside the club.
The incident remains under investigation. If you have any information you are encouraged to call CrimeStoppers at 1-888-CrimeSC.