Summerville activist feels threatened after Confederate flag, note left on front door
Meanwhile there’s some new confederate flag controversy in the low-country.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — ABC News 4 obtained 911 calls and exclusive surveillance video on Sunday that documented the frantic moments after the dock gave way at Shem Creek on Saturday night. Partygoers dropped into the water and bystanders rushed to help. Surveillance video captured people getting out of the water. If looked closely at that dock in the video,…
ORLANDO, Fla. – Hours after friends and family gathered at UCF for a prayer vigil in her honor Friday night, UCF senior London Harrell was pronounced dead and the man suspected of striking her in a hit-and-run crash was rearrested, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Investigators said Harrell, 21, was struck before 1 a.m. June 22 on Napiers Circle and…
A 32-year-old man was arrested Friday in North Myrtle in connection to a sexual assault on June 25th, according to a spokesperson for the City of North Myrtle Beach. Derby C. Sykes of Bladenboro, North Carolina is charged with criminal sexual conduct, third degree. Police say Sykes allegedly made contact with a 16-year-old girl who was swimming in the ocean…
After Marshae Jones was shot in the stomach, she lost her pregnancy. Now, a grand jury has indicted her for manslaughter in the death of her unborn fetus, while declining to hand up a criminal indictment against Ebony Jemison — the woman who shot her during a scuffle between the two women. Despite the grand jury indictment. prosecutors in Jefferson…
FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — The South Carolina General Assembly has approved a resolution to name the Highway 378 Bypass over Highway 52 in Lake City the “Farrah Turner Memorial Bypass.” Turner died three weeks after being shot while trying to serve a search warrant at a Florence home. A total of seven officers were shot and five survived. Turner and…
GREER, Conn. (WTNH) — A South Carolina Trooper who passed away earlier in June will be laid to rest on Saturday, June 29th. Officials announced that visitation and funeral services were being held for South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper First Class Jesse D. Cannon. Visitation is set to take place from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. at Fairview Baptist Church located…
Meanwhile there’s some new confederate flag controversy in the low-country.
MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — A man is in a hospital after being hit by a falling tree during Saturday’s storms on Marlboro Street in the McColl area of Marlboro County, according to McColl Police Chief Billy Stubbs. Stubbs said he’s not sure of the man’s condition. The man’s relative said he’s in the intensive care unit at a Florence hospital…
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC (WCIV) — Officials are trying to determine if an elder man found dead Saturday, June 22, at a pond on Kiawah Island was killed by an alligator. The man’s body was found shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday, about 2 hours after authorities say they were first notified of a missing person from property adjacent to the pond. The…
Howe Springs Fire Rescue rescued an elderly woman from her home during Thursday afternoon’s storms.