Author: ABC Columbia Staff

Coroner: Black man in SC jail likely died of cardiac event

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A coroner says that a mentally ill Black man who died after an encounter with deputies in a South Carolina jail earlier this year likely died of a cardiac event. Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal told reporters that Jamal Sutherland likely died of a fatal dysrhythmia, or an abnormal heart rhythm, after sheriff’s deputies attempted…

Man found shot to death in Cayce identified

Authorities say the victim was found inside of his car, a suspect remains on the loose

FILE The Lexington County Coroner has released the identity of the man found shot to death in Cayce Monday morning. Margaret Fisher says 42 year old Jose Gonzalez was found dead inside of his care around 3:40am. The Cayce department of public safety say they responded to Groover Circle after reports of shots being fired in that area. According to…

News execs protest seizing of journalists’ phone, email records

Bruce Brown, second from right executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, speaks accompanied by Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan, left, Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Washington Post general counsel Jay Kennedy, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, and CNN executive vice president and general counsel David Vigilante, right, after a meeting with Attorney General…