A missing South Carolina teen was found brutally beaten and stabbed in an abandoned home this week, and authorities have arrested two other teens for her murder. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook described the death of 13-year-old Ka’Niyah Baker as “brutal, heinous, vicious, gruesome, monstrous, and disturbing” at a press conference on Saturday. Baker had …
A South Carolina man was arrested this week after he allegedly gunned down a teenager last month for having a relationship with someone police described as “a loved one.” The Columbia Police Department said that Marcus Chaplin, 37, has been charged with murder in the shooting death of the 17-year-old, who was not named, WOLO …
A man wanted for murder after making a fake 911 call claiming to be a distressed hiker was arrested Sunday in South Carolina. The Monroe County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office said Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was taken into custody at a hospital in Columbia after he was identified by his fingerprints. Hamlett was charged with murder earlier …
A 17-year-old Maryland boy was shot and killed Saturday evening in the food court of a suburban Baltimore-Washington mall. Howard County Police identified the victim as Angelo Little and said a reward of up to $5,000 had been offered for information leading to an arrest. Police said they were called to the Mall in Columbia …
A recently hired South Carolina police officer has been suspended after his 4-year-old son shot himself with his father’s service weapon while visiting relatives in North Miami Beach. Peter Tidot, 29, told police that and his son arrived at his parents’ home on Wednesday and that he put his Sig Sauer .45 in his waistband …
Three members of a South Carolina family were shot to death over the weekend, one of them a council member in the historic African American community of Atlantic Beach. James DeWitt II and Gloria DeWitt, both 52, were found dead at their home in Columbia. The third victim was Natasha Stevens, also 52, of Conway, …
Ten people were shot Saturday afternoon when gunfire erupted at the Columbiana Centre shopping mall in South Carolina. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said that two of those people are in critical but stable condition, and six are in stable condition. “No fatalities,” the chief stressed. Two more people were injured after the shots rang …
A South Carolina woman who reported her boyfriend missing before Christmas has now been charged with his murder. Taylor Wardlaw, 29, reported 26-year-old Terrell Sims missing on December 22, according to Columbia police, who described him as an “acquaintance” of Wardlaw. Sims’s sisters, however, told WLTX that their brother had been with Wardlaw for some …
Police searching for a University of South Carolina student who’s been missing since Saturday night found a body at the bottom of a Richland County quarry. Columbia Police Deputy Chief Melron Kelly said the body has not yet been identified and that the Richland County Sheriff’s Department was handling the investigation at the Vulcan Quarry, …
South Carolina police have filed charges against two men in the shooting death of a 7-year-old boy in his home more than a year ago. Knowledge Sims and his six siblings were inside the home with two adults on the evening of April 29, 2020, when gunfire ripped into the home, killing the Burton Pack …
A 22-year-old Tennessee man shot and killed three members of his family early Friday, then fled from the scene before he was taken into custody 100 miles away. Nathanial Pipkin is charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of hi mother, 11-year-old sister, and another man, WZTV reported. The Maury County Sheriff’s Department …
The man accused of kidnapping and killing University of South Carolina senior Samantha Josephson in 2019 had blood in his car the day after the murder and told his then-girlfriend it was none of her business how it got there. Maria Howard testified Wednesday in the trial of Nathaniel Rowland, who has been charged with …
