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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ]
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
The mobile phone found at the shooting scene was malfunctioning to the point that the police Cellebrite data recovery device could not access it. [68] Martin's father, Tracy Martin, called to file a Missing Persons report early on February 27, and police officers arrived at his fiancée's condo with photographs of his dead son about 9:20 a.m ...
Timothy Jones Jr. (born December 28, 1981) is an American murderer who killed his five children: Merah, Elias, Nahtahn, Gabriel, and Abigail Elaine, in their mobile home along South Lake Drive in Lexington County, South Carolina. Jones admitted to working Nahtahn to death and killed the other four children in a panic.
The Oakland Elementary School shooting was a school shooting in 1988 in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States, in which 19-year-old James William Wilson Jr. shot and killed two students and wounded seven other students, a teacher, and a gym coach at Oakland Elementary School.