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27-year-old Clinton man charged in Prisma hospital shooting
This post was updated 9:42 Friday morning, April 12 with a current booking photo. Laurens County, S.C. – A Clinton man, Kevin Boyce Patterson, 27, has been booked at the Johnson Detention Center and charged by South Carolina Law Enforcement Division officers with attempted murder, kidnapping and pointing and presenting a firearm after an altercation…
Read MoreHospital shooting by ‘armed visitor’ at Prisma Laurens
Well after sunrise on Thursday morning, visitors to the Prisma Health Laurens County Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department were being scanned by an officer with a hand-held metal detector wand after an early morning altercation just before 2 a.m. resulted in injuries to an armed visitor and a Greenville Health Authority officer. “According to the police…
Read MoreShooting suspect held at JDC
Laurens, SC – From LCSO reports – At 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a residence on S. Harper Street in Laurens to respond to a call for a person who had been shot. When Deputies arrived, they located the victim, Tommy Williams, with an apparent gunshot wound to his…
Read MoreWare Shoals High senior killed in prom night crash
A Ware Shoals High School senior was killed as she was returning home from prom Saturday night. Trinity, Brandasia Harrison, 18, died after being involved in a car crash with a suspected drunk driver. According to reports, the 2013 Dodge Avenger, in which Harrison was a front-seat passenger, was struck head on by a 1999…
Read MoreMountville woman’s body found in Spartanburg
No one was looking for Melissa Fairlee Rhymer. Rhymer, whose last known address was on Revan Drive in Mountville, was found buried in a shallow grave behind a house in Spartanburg Friday by Spartanburg County Sheriff’s deputies using cadaver dogs. The bodies of Rhymer, 40, and Christin Renee Bunner, 27, of Spartanburg were both found…
Read MoreBody found on I-26, Irmo man charged with murder
An Irmo man is charged with murder after allegedly shooting an acquaintance and dumping the dead man’s body roadside on I-26 at the Laurens-Newberry county line. Ervin Chauncey Meggett, 22, is in the Johnson Detention Center on murder, armed robbery and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Meggett is accused…
Read MoreZF to supply transmissions to BMW’s Greer plant
A new agreement between ZF Transmissions and BMW will localize the supply chain between the two companies in the Upstate. In separate statements Friday, ZF and BMW announced that ZF’s Gray Court production facility will manufacture its advanced 8-speed automatic transmission for BMW’s plant located just over 27 miles away in Greer. “This business win…
Read MoreCHS student brings pellet gun to school, in custody
A Clinton High School student was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon after pellet gun was discovered in the student’s book bag. A student reported seeing a gun in a book bag belonging to another student to staff members at the school, administrators from Laurens County School District 56 said in a release. According to the…
Read More3 LCSO K-9 officers join narcotics team
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office grew its narcotics force by three this past week. K-9 officers Diesel, Albert and Chop gained their certifications in narcotics detection along with handlers Sgt. Darrin Boyd, Sgt. Josh Garrison and Deputy Jared Atwood. “The experience was great,” Atwood said. “We knew the dogs were going to do well. We…
Read MoreVolunteers Dom & Mom share Special Olympics bond
The Area 5 Special Olympics has a long tradition at Presbyterian College, and a pair of volunteers Friday had their own history with the games. PC sophomore Dominiq Jones, who serves as PC’s volunteer services coordinator, led a group of PC students as volunteers for the games along with his mother, Diana Jones, who traveled…
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