Man accused of breaking into ex-girlfriend’s home and firing shots, barely misses sleeping child
By HEATHER RUPPE
A bullet barely missed a sleeping child inside a Walterboro residence during a domestic dispute that occurred last week.
On April 14th, officers with the Walterboro Police Department (WPD) were called to a house on Strickland Street about shots fired. According to a WPD incident report, the 29-year-old Walterboro woman was lying in bed with her boyfriend at about 10:35 p.m. when they heard someone at the bedroom window. When the woman looked to see who it was, she saw her child’s father – the 27-year-old Walterboro suspect. The woman then told the man to leave, but he instead “became irate and snatched the screen out of the window,” the report states.
The man then began to climb into the woman’s house. She fled to a neighbor’s house for help, while the boyfriend stayed in the house with the suspect. During this time, the suspect is allegedly fired a shot through a door toward the male victim. “The round traveled through the bedroom door across the hall, into the children’s bedroom door, where it hit the floor and lodged into the outside wall,” the report states. “The round barely missed … a small child that was sleeping in her bed.”
The suspect then fled the house and fired a second shot at the male victim’s vehicle.
The suspect is charged with attempted murder, malicious damage to a vehicle and first-degree burglary. This case remains under investigation.
No one was injured.
Father, son argument leads to 911 call
Deputies were called to a Smoaks residence on April 19th when a father and son got into an argument and the son called 911. According to a Colleton County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the juvenile son, whose age is not known, called 911 after he and his father got into the argument: that argument began when the son was making too much noise in his room, and the father told the son to quiet down. “Words were exchanged and the son ran out of the house calling 911,” the report states. No legal action was taken.
ATV drivers caught in the act
The drivers of three four-wheelers were stopped and warned by a deputy last week after they were caught driving the four-wheelers in the road. One of the four men was arrested for reckless driving. According to a Colleton County Sheriff’s Office incident report, deputies were called to a portion of Jones Swamp Road on April 19th to a report of people driving the ATV’s in the middle of the road. The deputy warned each of the operators to stop. After being warned, however, one of the men then did a wheelie in the road. That man was arrested for reckless driving, the report states.
Catalytic converter theft
A Colleton resident went fishing last week and returned to a Colleton County boat landing to find that the catalytic converter had been stolen from his vehicle. According to a Colleton County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the victim returned to his car on April 20th at the public landing in Yemassee and found his vehicle disabled and the catalytic converter stolen. This case is under investigation.
