Officers Responding to Heart Attack Call Find Woman Shot

CLINTON, S.C. (AP)- Laurens County officers responding to a call about a woman having a heart attack instead found a woman who had been fatally shot.

Deputies tell local media outlets they got a call at around 4 p.m. Friday about a woman in cardiac arrest in a home in Clinton.

Officers found an unresponsive woman with apparent gunshot wounds to her upper body. They were unable to resuscitate her.

The coroner has identified the victim as 40-year-old Kimberly Smith. He says she lived at the home.

Deputies say 40-year-old Clinton Anthony Smith of Greenwood has been arrested in the shooting. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney.