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4 days ago
- Yahoo
Family asks for help to find gunman who shot 7-year-old girl
A 7-year-old girl from South Carolina has been fighting to recover at a Charlotte hospital after someone fired into her house and shot last weekend. Pageland police have not made an arrest. ALSO READ: 7-year-old shot while sleeping in critical condition; suspect on the loose South Carolina reporter Tina Terry talked to the girl's grandfather who is calling on the public for help. Skylar Baker was still listed in critical condition. 'She was always happy,' said Shawn Christopher Moore, Skylar's grandfather. 'I mean, she's just a happy kid you know, four-wheeler riding, just a happy kid.' He said his family had recently returned back from a Disney cruise that his granddaughter loved. Someone fired into Skylar's Pageland house on Brewer Circle at about 1 a.m. Sunday while she was sleeping, striking her. She was flown to a hospital. 'It was awful,' said Dianne Louallen, a cousin. 'Everybody in Pageland right now wants some justice for her and everybody's praying that she'll pull through.' Louallen and Skylar's grandfather are asking people with information to come forward now. 'What if this was your own personal family?' Moore said. 'You definitely would want them brought to justice. It's just not about my situation, it's about anybody that ever have to go through something traumatic like this.' Pageland police said Friday there were no updates in this case so far. Skylar's family just started a GoFundMe page to help raise money to keep her parents by her side while she's in the hospital.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Mother speaks out after daughter attacked by group of teens at Fort Mill 7-Eleven
A woman is speaking out after her daughter was attacked at a gas station in Fort Mill. It happened at the 7-Eleven on Doby's Bridge Road in Fort Mill two weeks ago. In a video captured of the incident, a group of nearly 50 teens is seen surrounding the 17-year-old girl's car. One of them then reaches into the vehicle and smacks her. 'I felt mortified. Every hair on my body stood up. I couldn't believe what I was watching,' the teen's mother told Channel 9. She said she didn't know what caused the group to gather around her daughter's car. "The only thing we were given by some of the offenders is that they were in bad moods and bored," the mother explained. ALSO READ: Teen in custody after deadly shooting at Rock Hill gas station Channel 9's Tina Terry spoke with County Solicitor Kevin Brackett about the incident. He said if the young girl had started her car and driven away from the scene, a lot of people could have been hurt. However, she would have been protected by the law. 'I don't know that they understand SC law. I'll take the chance to educate the kids there,' said Brackett. 'SC law is clear. If you're in your car business home, you have the right to defend yourself with lethal force. If that girl had been able to get her car started and put it in gear and punch the gas to pull out of that situation and run over several of those kids, I wouldn't have done anything about it. The law wouldn't have allowed me to, but I wouldn't have anyway because you shouldn't be behaving like that.' He then issued a warning for those teens, as well as their parents. 'You need to be careful; watch what your kids are doing, who they're doing it with, and who they're hanging out with. They are literally in life-and-death situations when they put themselves in places like this, doing things like that,' Brackett continued. The Fort Mill Police Department said they are still investigating the incident. However, so far, at least one juvenile has been charged. VIDEO: Teen in custody after deadly shooting at Rock Hill gas station
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Yahoo
Bodies of man, girl found in house after fire, Rock Hill officials say
The bodies of a man and girl were found inside a home that caught fire overnight on Deas Street off Cherry Road in Rock Hill, officials said. Firefighters, the Rock Hill Police Department, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are investigating the fire that extinguished on its own. The fire call came in at about 7:30 a.m. Friday. Channel 9′s Tina Terry asked if the two people who died as a result of the fire. 'The coroner is here,' said Deputy Chief of Operations Trey Hovis, Rock Hill Fire Department. 'They are going to do their investigation to find out all the details on that, so we don't have any details as far as what the cause of death was.' There was no foul play expected, according to the preliminary investigation. No additional details have been made available. This is a developing story. Check back with for updates. VIDEO: Police: 18-year-old injured during overnight shooting in Rock Hill
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Families say proposed law over deadly drugs doesn't go far enough
Some families say a new bill in South Carolina that would hold fentanyl dealers accountable for overdose deaths isn't strong enough. The legislation is in the South Carolina House currently, but Channel 9′s Tina Terry spoke with families who say it should be expanded to include other deadly drugs. 'He knew what he was taking, but didn't know the risk,' said Holly Alsobrooks. She's been telling her son's story for years. Her son, Cody, died after taking just one pill that was laced with fentanyl. It happened in 2020, and since then, she and other parents have gone to Columbia pushing for a bill like this. House Bill 3591 was in a subcommittee this week, and if passed, it could send fentanyl dealers to prison for up to 30 years for the deaths they cause. But Alsobrook says the bill is now outdated. 'The fentanyl-induced homicide is not something that we are for. It doesn't include all drugs, and we know that we have xylazine and many other drugs that people are coming up with now. Our loved one's tox screens are coming back with multiple drugs,' she told Terry on Thursday. Lancaster County officials say there were 223 overdoses in 2024 from all opioids, not just fentanyl. Some of them were deadly. Sixth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Randy Newman agrees that the bill should include all illegal drugs. He traveled to Columbia to speak out on Wednesday. 'We would suggest a drug-induced homicide bill in that it would cover any drug that's a controlled substance. It would include fentanyl, but it would also include all these other drugs,' Newman said. Georgia and North Carolina currently have drug-induced homicide laws. On the phone Thursday, one sponsor of the bill said it may be easier to pass it this session as is and then make changes later. The bill moves on to the House Judiciary Committee next and would have to pass the full House before going to the Senate. We'll keep an eye on the bill's progress this legislative session. (VIDEO: '4th wave': Overdose deaths for Black, Latin people tripled in Mecklenburg County since 2019)
