Police in South Carolina shoot suspect dead at private college
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Version 0 of 1. A vehicle hit a campus police officer at a small, private school in South Carolina on Monday night, and the officer fired into the car, fatally shooting a person inside. The officer was investigating a possible vehicle break-in at Spartanburg Methodist College, officials said. When the officer arrived two men ran off, but one was quickly captured, Thom Berry, a spokesman for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, said. The other tried to leave in the vehicle and struck the officer, who shot at the vehicle, Berry said. The officer was not seriously injured and was treated at the scene. A campus lockdown was lifted, and classes would go on as normal on Tuesday, according to the school. The name of the officer and the name of the man killed were not immediately released. State police said in a news release that there was no dashcam or body camera video of the incident. The officer feared for his life and defended himself by shooting into the vehicle, Lieutenant Kevin Bobo of the Spartanburg County sheriff’s office said. The number of shots fired and the direction in which they were fired has not been determined, he said. Bobo said students were never in danger and there was never an active shooter at the college, a two-year school with about 800 students in the northern part of the state. |