Posted on 10/03/2018 5:54:09 PM PDT by robowombat
1 LEO killed, 4 other LEOs wounded in SC shooting Three deputies and two officers were shot Wednesday evening Today at 5:15 PM By Jeffrey Collins
FLORENCE, S.C. — Five South Carolina law enforcement officers were shot Wednesday — including one fatally — in a Florence County shooting in which the suspect has been taken into custody, authorities said.
Sheriff's Deputy Chief Glenn Kirby confirmed the incident Wednesday, news outlets reported. Kirby said three Florence County sheriff's deputies and two city officers were shot.
Florence County Coroner Keith von Lutcken said the dead officer was a member of the Florence city police department.
John Wukela, a city spokesman for the city, says city police, working with the sheriff's office, were responding to an incident in the area when they came under fire. He did not have specific information on the numbers of officers involved but said some were seriously wounded.
Thom Berry, spokesman for the State Law Enforcement Division, said the agency had sent crime scene technicians to assist officials in Florence but at this time had not been requested to help with any investigation.
Further details were not immediately available.
Authorities said the shootings happened in Vintage Place, an upscale neighborhood in the western part of the city.
Florence, a city in South Carolina's northeastern corner home to roughly 37,000, sits at the convergence of Interstates 95 and 20. It's the largest city in the region known as the Pee Dee, an area recently affected by heavy flooding in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
And just as the Ford thing is blowing up in their faces.
What timing!
(Ever notice when the left gets a good dose of egg on their faces there’s a shooting or something?)
Prayers up for this brave man and his family and all the other LEOs and their families. I’m sick of these attacks.
I agree. False flag event prior to confirmation. Sad that there are this many detailed individuals who can be on board with this.
All the police officer shootings should be laid at the evil Kenyan’s feet.
It used to be that nobody wanted to kill a cop. What happened to change that? Why are they targets?
prayers
Ask that muzzi that was our nightmare for 8 years.
I haven’t seen the killer’s name yet. Wonder why.
When was that?
Aside from fiction.
People have been targeting police since they were called constables.
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