Posted on 07/09/2009 7:12:49 AM PDT by visualops
CHESNEE, S.C. — Police in South Carolina say an 8-year-old girl has been shot to death by the estranged husband of her father's girlfriend.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright says the man grabbed the girl in a headlock Wednesday and shot her twice in the driveway of a home in Chesnee, about 60 miles southwest of Charlotte, N.C.
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sad SC ping
South Carolina,unlike some states,knows how to deal with psychopaths like that.
I didn’t see anything about this in the news yesterday. Admittedly I do not watch much TV especially local news.
Another guy with a long rap sheet killing an innocent.
He’ll get his due, one way or another.
Well, that was logical.
The devil is rejoicing. All the suffering, all the evil, all the sin, all the death . . .
ping
Just feel the "free love!"
A little more info from Greenvilleonline.com -
Several adults and children saw the shooting and pointed officers toward Blackwell, investigators said.
Blackwell shot himself as police closed in. He was taken to a hospital but his condition wasn’t released.
So were the cops were called before or after he shot her?? No mention of the time elapsed between the murder and the arrival of the cops.
Another Amish hoodlum gone amok?
Wonder why they were all together and where was the father? Gee here's an idea: finish ending your previous marriage/relationship before you decide to get involved in another.
Good grief! This is the same area as Gaffney, where that killer was on the loose last week!
Prayers up.
8 year old Heather Brooke Center murdered in North Carolina
An 8-year-old girl who wanted to spend Wednesday afternoon swimming was brutally shot to death by the estranged husband of her father’s girlfriend, authorities say.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office plans to charge 50-year-old Ricky Lee Blackwell, of 248 Ridings Road, with murder and kidnapping once he recovers from surgery.
Officials said Blackwell grabbed the child, put her in a headlock and shot her once in the head not far from his double-wide mobile home. The man proceeded to shoot her at least three more times as she was falling to the ground, and perhaps while she was on the ground, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said.
The tragedy occurred about 3 p.m. on 244 Ridings Road — a narrow road in a rural area of Spartanburg County not far south of Highway 11 between Chesnee and New Prospect. A few mobile homes are the only dwellings on the road.
Blackwell and his wife used to live together on Ridings Road, though the two are now estranged. Their adult daughter lives in a unit nearby, at 244 Ridings Road — the scene of the crime.
Blackwell’s estranged wife brought her boyfriend’s child, Heather, to 244 Ridings Road Wednesday afternoon to go swimming.
“When she got here, her estranged husband showed up — he lives next door — I don’t know if he saw her pull in, if he knew she was coming or what,” said Master Deputy Tony Ivey with the Sheriff’s Office said. “That’s when everything took place.”
I thought so too.
why teh ping?
Spartenburg
The poor little one is in a better place now.
I hope the murderer’s wound is only the beginning of the justice which he deserves.
I think the husband punished the boyfriend more than if he (the husband) had just shot him (the boyfriend).
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