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Crime beat 2/12

Published Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:52 AM

By Jim Tatum
Summerville Journal Scene ®

It’s not loaded…

A sad and too often repeated scenario occurred Sunday when a 28-year-old Summerville man accidentally shot and killed himself while playing with a loaded handgun.

A Dorchester County deputy responded to a call about a self-inflicted gunshot wound a little after 2 a.m. Feb. 7 at an Orangeburg Road Apartment.

The deputy arrived on the scene and found a black male lying face up on the floor with what appeared to be a gunshot wound on the right side of his head. Witnesses said the man and a friend arrived at the apartment from a nearby convenience store. They were sitting on separate couches when the victim pulled a handgun from an unknown location and started waving it around while sitting on the arm of the couch. The witness asked him to put it away, then moved away. When he moved away, he heard a shot.

Another witness said she told the victim to quit playing with the gun and he replied, “See, it’s not loaded,” then put it to his head and pulled the trigger.

The victim was airlifted to the Medical University of South Carolina.

Spray paint and loitering

A deputy responded to a call about suspicious juveniles loitering near Heart Pine Court in Summerville. The deputy spoke to the complainant, who stated that he saw three unknown white male juveniles walking away from an open field across from his residence. He then noted that he could see two aerosol cans lying in the field and what appeared to be spray paint on the grass. The complainant walked across the street to see what they had been doing and observed that they had been causing aerosol cans to explode by unknown means.

Lock your doors

A Summerville woman reported that while she was in a grocery store on Boone Hill Road, someone entered her car and stole her purse. She said she was only gone for a few minutes and had left the car unlocked and parked in the fire lane.

Another customer told her two black males stole the purse. One, a light skinned male in a black shirt stood by the door of the store while the second, a dark skinned male in a white t shirt opened the car door and took a purse from the front seat.

The victim said the purse contained a lot of loose change, a green Bible, and a cell phone.

Bad turn leads to arrest

A Summerville police officer saw a black Dodge Neon make a left from U.S. 78 onto Cedar Street, but when the driver made the turn he crossed the yellow line into the oncoming lane. The officer stopped the car and asked the driver for his license, to which he replied he didn’t have one, that it was suspended.

The officer then noticed lithium batteries, liquid heat, and a quantity of pseudophedrine cold tablets, all of which are used to make methamphetamine.

The officer detained the driver for driving under suspension and put him in the back of the patrol car. A further search of the subject’s vehicle revealed a digital scale coated with a green plant material and a tray with more of it.

The subject then told the officer that the green substance was his girlfriend’s marijuana.

Officers then searched the subject himself and found two packets of power that the subject admitted was heroin; they also found his shooting up kit.

The subject then admitted to having all those items to make methamphetamine because he had lost his job.

He was transported to the detention center.

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