COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)–A six-person jury ruled Wednesday that three Columbia Police Officers acted in self-defense in the shooting death of Ajani Mitchell. The verdict was the culmination of a coroner’s inquest into the May 25th incident. Police say the officers were responding to a domestic dispute between Mitchell and his mother. Richland Co. Coroner Gary Watts says…
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP)– There apparently was no peaceful, easy feeling when a North Charleston woman allegedly stabbed her roommate because she was fed up with his listening to the Eagles. North Charleston police say 54-year-old Vernett Bader is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature following the Monday night incident. An incident report says police…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Miss South Carolina Brooke Mosteller and the director of the state pageant are apologizing if anyone was offended by Mosteller’s joke about mobile homes as she introduced herself at the Miss America pageant. At Sunday’s pageant, Mosteller said in a pre-recorded statement: “From the state where 20 percent of our homes are mobile because that’s how…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State regulators have approved a request by South Carolina Electric and Gas to increase its electric rates by about 3 percent to help pay for the costs of building two new nuclear reactors. The state Public Service Commission on Wednesday approved the increase, which goes into effect Oct. 30. The change means that residential customers using…
This video is no longer available. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — “They know they did it, whoever hit me,” says Marianne Frazier, hit and run victim. Frazier says a walk on Trenholm Road Monday afternoon, almost turned deadly. “The victim says she was walking along this sidewalk and a trash can was here, so she stepped to go around it and…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) âone space€one space” Authorities say a man killed by a Richland County deputy during a shootout after a traffic stop had family in Beaufort County, N.C., and was wanted for assaulting a police officer in that area. Investigators said 39-year-old Mitchell St. Clair Jr. had another person’s identification on him when he was shot and killed Monday…
It took a jury less than an hour to determine that two Columbia Police officers were justified in using deadly force when they shot and killed 21-year-old Ajani Mitchell on May 25, 2013.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) _ Prosecutors have decided to drop a homicide by child abuse charge against a teenager who found a 2-year-old disabled girl unconscious while caring for her in July 2012.
