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Deputies: Man Puts Child In Headlock, Fatally Shoots Her
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Posted on 07/08/2009 10:01:35 PM PDT by Chet 99

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said a man shot and killed an 8-year-old child Wednesday afternoon and then shot himself.

Deputies said Ricky Lee Blackwell picked up his estranged wife and the daughter of the woman's new boyfriend at about 3 p.m. He drove them to the woman's home on Ridings Road in the Cooley Springs community where the child, Heather Brooke Center, planned to swim and play with friends.

Witnesses said that's when Center got out of the car and the man put her in a headlock and shot her four times, killing her.

"He said something to the effect of, 'Maybe you'll hurt like I'm hurting,' and shot the girl four times," said Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.

Three other children and a teenager witnessed the shooting, police said.

"They're just totally in shock," Wright said. "I mean, who does something like that to an 8-year-old in front of other kids?"

Investigators said Blackwell ran a short distance from the scene and into some woods.

Moments later, deputies approached him with guns drawn as he came out of the woods. The sheriff's office said deputies told him to drop his weapon, but Blackwell shot himself in the side.

He was transported to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and was taken into surgery.

Deputies said if Blackwell survives, he will be charged with murder.

"I hope he makes it so he can stand trial," Wright said.

One of his relatives who went to the scene soon after the incident couldn't believe the news.

"This can't be real," said Blackwell's relative, Royanne Thompson. "This can't happen. This didn't happen."

Wright said Blackwell had some criminal record, but there was nothing violent in his history. There was no immediate word on his condition.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: blackwell; crime

1 posted on 07/08/2009 10:01:35 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

Well, I can always count on you to sniff out the most f***ed up news and post it on FR.


2 posted on 07/08/2009 10:06:20 PM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: thecabal

At least we’ve broadened our horizons from nothing but pitbull attacks.


3 posted on 07/08/2009 10:09:27 PM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: Chet 99

Sad. RIP.


4 posted on 07/08/2009 10:19:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Chet 99

Anything I’d say would get me banned. I hope he dies is as good as I can say.


5 posted on 07/08/2009 10:24:17 PM PDT by packrat35 (Stimulus = Kenyan term meaning "pissing away your future")
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To: packrat35

I hope the son of a b!tch lives, and spends the next 50 years until he dies in the general population of a federal prison.


6 posted on 07/08/2009 11:06:43 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: upchuck; SC Swamp Fox

What unspeakable evil. Thank G-d South Carolina still knows how to give the death penalty.


7 posted on 07/08/2009 11:10:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: john in springfield

Throw him to the Pitbulls.

/sarc

BTW I just saw a snip on the news about an arrest on a spread of land where 200 or so dogs were kept for dog fighting.

Dont know if it was a pit bull type of dog or not.

I know Chet will keep the forum updated.


8 posted on 07/08/2009 11:18:45 PM PDT by Global2010 (Noli Perturbati)
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To: Chet 99

I need to know if it was his idea or his “estranged wife’s” idea for him to give her and her boyfriend’s little girl a ride.


9 posted on 07/08/2009 11:51:49 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Chet 99
I've become numb to a lot of adverse news but the harming and killing of children boils my blood everytime. I remember reading about the child whose father ate his eyes while on PCP.

It's another reason I can't stand the media circus around the child molester, Michael Jackson. Seeing his daughter cry over him while the Jacksons' hovered behind her like dark, hungry wraiths, without any sympathetic expressions for the girl just made me want to cringe.

I don't think we should hide from hideous evil acts. We should get to know evil or we'll never defeat it.

10 posted on 07/09/2009 12:17:51 AM PDT by TheThinker (America doesn't have a president. It has a usurper.)
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To: Chet 99

Hey honey do you and your lover’s daughter want a ride to the pool? Weird.

If there’s a hell this guy is going.


11 posted on 07/09/2009 2:17:00 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: TheThinker
1. Attach millstone to neck.
2. Toss into sea, deep end of public pool, really deep dunking pond.
12 posted on 07/09/2009 2:44:44 AM PDT by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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To: carumba

Forget the millstone. Just take him about 50 miles offshore and dump him. He couldn’t swim that far.


13 posted on 07/09/2009 4:36:07 AM PDT by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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To: Chet 99

<Well, I can always count on you to sniff out the most f***ed up news and post it on FR.

Maybe, but that’s why I like you, Chet 99. Some of us are interested in “f***ed up news.”


14 posted on 07/09/2009 7:38:06 AM PDT by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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To: fredhead
Forget the millstone. Just take him about 50 miles offshore and dump him. He couldn’t swim that far. <<<<<<<<<<<<

I think marinading him in dead fish the night before you drop him 50 miles off the coast of Florida might be a good touch.

Not that it makes it any better or worse but can someone explain: She was 8 years old (so he has been divorced/separated for 8 years and is still this upset?)

15 posted on 07/09/2009 8:29:08 AM PDT by politicalmerc (NObama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: politicalmerc

I say let him die slowly and miserable....Someone should cut him with a chain saw as many times he shot the little girl...


16 posted on 07/09/2009 8:55:06 PM PDT by bree bunny
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To: bree bunny

If I understand this piece correctly, this *** killed this little girl just to hurt his ex- I really can’t say what I think about that.


17 posted on 07/09/2009 9:53:12 PM PDT by politicalmerc (NObama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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