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The Charleston metropolitan area is an urban area centered around Charleston, South Carolina. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget designates the area as the Charleston-North Charleston, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan statistical area used for statistical purposes only by the United States Census Bureau and other federal agencies. The OMB defines the area as comprising Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties, an area with 799,636 residents in the 2020 census. Principal cities include Charleston, North Charleston, and Summerville. The area is commonly referred to as the Tri-County Area or the Lowcountry, though the latter term has historically referred to South Carolina's southern coast in general.

The 2025 Setia City Mall shooting is a shooting incident that occurred at Setia City Mall at around 10:50PM on 8 February 2025. A solo gunman with pistol fired at least 8 shots in the shopping mall, injuring one janitor in the legs and causing mass panic among the shoppers. The shooting caused the shopping mall to be evacuated and stores inside the mall to roll down their shutters. The gunman, later identified as Yap Chin Boon, 35, a Malaysian, also nicknamed \"Ah Boy\", fled to the carpark of the shopping mall after the shooting. Yap then hijacked a Perodua Ativa SUV carried with a family of six at gunpoint and forced the SUV driver to drive him away from the scene. Yap then dropped off from the SUV at the Pandamaran exit of KESAS Highway and subsequently escaped.