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On April 7, 2021, six people were shot and killed at a house in Rock Hill, South Carolina by Phillip Adams, a former reserve cornerback in the National Football League.Adams, who lived in Rock Hill, killed four of his neighbors (a couple and their two grandchildren in the Lesslie family) at their home, as well as two repairmen who were working on the house's HVAC unit.
An anti-black mass shooting and hate crime occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney.
2011 Medford pharmacy shooting: A man killed two employees and two customers at a pharmacy before stealing painkillers and pills and fleeing with his wife as the driver. The entire shooting was captured by surveillance video. [41] March 11–22, 2012 Montauban, France and Toulouse, France: 8 [note 2] 11 19: CCTV and body-worn camera
Prior to 2024, 43 convicted murderers were executed in South Carolina between 1985 and 2011; Jeffrey Brian Motts was the most recent person at that point to be executed, with his execution taking place on May 6, 2011, for the murder of his cellmate at Perry Correctional Institution (where Motts was serving a life sentence for murdering his ...
Leslie McGregor "Leee" John (born 23 June 1957) [1] is an English musician, singer and actor of St Lucian descent. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the soul band Imagination , which had three UK top 10 hits in the early 1980s. [ 2 ]
The suspect, 74-year-old Fred Hopkins, a former lawyer who was disbarred in 1982, was arrested at the scene before being taken to the hospital for a head injury. On October 5, police charged Hopkins with one count of murder and six counts of attempted murder. [ 10 ]
Steven Bixby is currently on South Carolina's death row at the Broad River Secure Facility in Richland County. On October 26, 2007, an Abbeville County, South Carolina jury found Rita Leona Bixby (née Greenwood; August 4, 1932 – September 12, 2011) guilty of two counts of accessory before the fact of murder and one count of conspiracy. She ...
Scott during his service in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1980s. Walter Lamar Scott [note 1] was a 50-year-old [8] forklift operator, studying massage therapy. [9] [10] [11] An arrest warrant had been issued since a January 16, 2013, court hearing regarding his child support payments, [12] for which he had previously been jailed three times. [13]