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  • One dead, multiple injured in mass shooting during Juneteenth celebration at South Carolina VFW facility

    06/22/2025 6:06:45 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Nypost ^ | 06/22/2025 | Shane Galvin
    One person was killed and multiple others were injured in a mass shooting during a Juneteenth celebration at a VFW in South Carolina Saturday night, according to officials. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office led a massive police response at the Veterans of Foreign Wars facility, outside of Greenville, where bullets flew Saturday before 11 p.m., WSPA reported. The VFW 1790 was hosting a Juneteenth celebration at the time of the shooting, Anderson County Sheriff’s deputies told the outlet.
  • Daughter Who Gave Tearful Media Interviews Charged in Family’s 2015 Murders

    12/18/2023 5:08:34 PM PST · by simpson96 · 4 replies
    Daily Beast ^ | 12/18/2023 | Allison Quinn
    More than eight years after a South Carolina couple was brutally killed in their home on Halloween night alongside their elderly mothers, one of the family members who gave a slew of tearful media interviews mourning the victims has just been charged with the crime. Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride announced the jaw-dropping conclusion of the case on Friday, telling reporters that Amy Vilardi and her husband, Rosmore “Ross” Vilardi, had been taken into custody and charged with the murders of Amy’s mother, Cathy Scott, 60; Cathy’s husband, Michael Scott, 59; Michael’s mother, Barbara Scott, 80; and Cathy’s mother, Violet...
  • Duo arrested when drugs fall out of suspect’s fake pregnant belly

    05/15/2023 5:15:08 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 14, 2023 | Ronny Reyes
    Congratulations! It’s a … bag of cocaine. Two people were recently accused of trafficking more than 1,500 grams of cocaine through South Carolina after the drugs fell out of a fake pregnancy belly being worn by one of the alleged dealers. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said deputies first pulled over Anthony Miller and Cemeka Mitchem during a “proactive patrol” on Interstate 85.
  • Georgia high school football star, 18, is shot dead in mall parking lot while on a date with his girlfriend: Two teenagers, aged 18 and 19, are arrested as cops investigate motive

    10/10/2022 5:50:01 PM PDT · by Morgana · 51 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | October 10, 2021 | Vanessa Serna
    Two teenage boys have been arrested for shooting dead a Georgia high school football star in a mall parking lot while he was on a date with his girlfriend. Elijah DeWitt, 18, was shot dead in the parking lot of a Dave & Buster's outside of the Sugarloaf Mills Mall in Lawrenceville on October 5 following an altercation with two others. Police arrested Kemare Bryan, 18, and Chandler Richardson, 19, in South Carolina two days later. The two are both from Lawrenceville. 'Detectives are still working to investigate the motive behind this incident, it appears that the suspects and the...
  • Terrorist Sympathizer Who Placed Bombs in South Carolina Roadways Sentenced

    07/01/2019 3:12:44 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 13 replies
    FBI ^ | June 17, 2019 | Staff
    A man and his daughter were driving down a rural highway in Anderson County, South Carolina, on January 30, 2018, when they noticed something odd—a glowing wicker basket in the middle of the road. The man stopped to examine the package. It exploded, causing minor burns to his leg. Among the bomb remnants police found at the scene was a piece of paper with Arabic writing referencing Osama bin Laden, leading investigators toward a possible terrorism motive. Local, state, and federal law enforcement collected evidence and sent the bomb components to the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, where experts looked...