Arrests made in shooting
Over the weekend, Dorchester County sheriff’s deputies arrested two men who allegedly robbed and shot a 16-year-old Oct. 27 before pushing him from a pickup truck.
Clifford Adrian Whitfield, 22, of Charleston, was arrested Saturday and Harold Williams Jr., 18, of North Charleston, was taken into custody Sunday, Maj. John Garrison said.
Both are charged with assault and battery with intent to kill and armed robbery.
Deputies found the victim lying on Terry Avenue in the Greenhurst neighborhood shortly before 8 p.m. with a single gunshot wound to his abdomen, Garrison said.
He said he was shot while riding in a blue pickup truck with two men, who he described as 20-something black males with dreadlocks, according to an incident report.
He said he knew one of them as “C.A.,” the report says.
Deputies had little time to glean information because he had to be taken to Medical University Hospital in Charleston to undergo emergency surgery, Garrison said.
Monday, the teen was still at the hospital, where he has been listed in serious condition but continues to improve, Garrison said.
Whitfield, who was denied bond, and Williams, whose bond was set at $500,000, were still being held Tuesday at the Dorchester County Detention Center.

Gun greets repo workers
When two people showed up to repossess his motorcycle, a Summerville man made it known that they weren’t welcome by pointing a pistol at them and telling them to get off his property, a sheriff’s office report shows.
The repossession workers went to the man’s home Oct. 28 after his father, who owns the bike, told them they could find it there.
They knocked on the door to speak with the suspect, but he turned off all the lights and then peeked through the window blinds, the report shows.
Again they said they needed to speak with him. That’s when he came out of the house with a pistol in hand, the report says.
They said he racked the slide back, pointed it at both of them and said, “Get off of my property.”
After one of the workers yelled at the man, they did as he asked and got off his property, the report says.

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