A South Carolina man is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting his 17-year-old cousin during an argument over salt and vinegar potato chips. According to the Post and Courier, Ryan Dean Langdale, 19, initially reported the September 29 incident as an accidental shooting. However, police announced Wednesday that forensic evidence contradicted claims that the 17-year-old …
By JEFFREY COLLINS and MEG KINNARD, Associated Press FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — The Vietnam veteran and disbarred lawyer accused of shooting seven law enforcement officers, killing one, bragged online about his marksmanship and love for the “smell of gunpowder” in the years before the deadly standoff, records and social media posts unearthed Thursday showed. Frederick Hopkins …
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Seven South Carolina law enforcement officers were shot, one fatally, in a confrontation with a suspect who held children hostage in a home and fired on deputies, officials said. The suspect was taken into custody after a two-hour standoff. Spokesman John Wukela in the city of Florence, where the deadly encounter …
A South Carolina teacher who was arrested last year for her alleged sexual relationship with a teen student reportedly docked the victim’s grade if he refused sex. The Post and Courier reported that the student and his parent filed a lawsuit Thursday in Charleston County circuit court, accusing the Charleston County School District of negligence …
A South Carolina woman reportedly took her own life after she shot her ex-boyfriend, who was recently granted a restraining order against her. Jennifer Rudemyer, 39, reportedly turned the gun on herself after shooting Dr. Gatson Perez, 60, four to five times outside his Spanish Wells Plantation home on Tuesday. Rudemyer died at the scene while Perez …
A search for two bodies in South Carolina has ended following a tip that incarcerated serial killer Todd Kohlhepp told someone that he buried additional victims on the side of the highway. GoUpstate.com reported that Spartanburg County deputies concluded their six-hour search of a wooded area off Sumner Road near Interstate 26 at 2:30 p.m. on …
Officials have charged a South Carolina mother who allegedly lied about her infant daughter’s kidnapping hours before she was found dead in a diaper box. Breanna Lewis, 19, has been charged homicide by child abuse in connection with last month’s death of her 11-month-old daughter, Harlee. An arrest warrant obtained by WSOC-TV stated that Breanna had …
The biological mother of a Florida teen who was abducted at birth said she’s cut ties with her daughter for still pursuing a relationship with her kidnapper. Shanara Mobley, 36, told the Daily Mail that daughter Kamiyah, 19, has refused to sever ties with Gloria Williams—the woman who posed as a nurse and abducted her from …
The woman who abducted a newborn from a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital in July 1998 and went on to raise the girl as her own for 18 years was sentenced to prison on Friday. Gloria Williams, 52, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a plot that involved her posing as a nurse to steal a …
A 1-year-old South Carolina boy died in a hot car late last month after his grandmother went inside to get her keys and lost consciousness, according to the toddler’s mother. Speaking with WYFF, Krista Nix said son Joe Avery James Lockaby spent the evening of May 31 at her stepmother’s house when the grandmother put the …
The South Carolina infant found dead in a diaper box Tuesday possibly died of natural causes, police officials announced Thursday. According to WIS, Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks said mother Breanna Lewis, 19, told investigators that baby Harlee had “pushed her to the brink” but wouldn’t speculate on what her comment meant. Lewis is accused …
A South Carolina mother who claimed her 11-month-old daughter was snatched out her arms was arrested after the missing infant was found dead in a diaper box Tuesday afternoon. Police said deputies found Harlee Lewis’ body in a plastic bag inside a diaper box located approximately 1,000 yards from her Chesterfield County home. Breanna Lewis, 19, told …
