Investigators carrying out a welfare check on a University of Missouri student have arrested a 20-year-old Columbia woman after finding a burning body in her backyard. Because of the condition of the burned body, investigators have not yet been able to make a positive identification, according to a statement from the Columbia Police Department. “While …
Police in Columbia, Missouri, are warning of a “suspected prowler” who appears to be targeting women. The Columbia Police Department provided a list of incidents since August 9, all but one south of downtown. In that incident, the suspect entered a woman’s apartment but became frightened and left. (10) The suspect has been reported to …
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 …
A Missouri woman has been charged with murder after an 8-month-old girl died in her care. According to court documents, the baby’s parents left her and two other children in the care of Jennifer Johnson, 44, at about 5 p.m. Saturday. After returning home, the mother said she found the child unresponsive and cool to …
A South Carolina couple was jailed this week after their 1-year-old son overdosed on fentanyl — and it was the second time the boy ingested his parents’ drugs. The Columbia Police Department said Donald Ray Little Jr, 39, and Mary Ashley Willis, 27, have been charged with unlawful neglect of a child. Little has also …
A 20-year-old man in South Carolina hasn’t been seen since he left work on Wednesday, Richland County deputies say. Jonathan Guill left his job at Columbia International University on foot, according to The State, and may have headed toward downtown Columbia. Guill is in need of medications, deputies said, and did not have them with …
