Updated: 5:30 PM EST Jan 28, 2021 A man was killed Sunday as he was walking in Spartanburg, the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office confirmed on Thursday.Coroner Rusty Clevenger said Guy Dale Covington Sr., 55, was struck by a vehicle on W. O. Ezelle Boulevard near Chester Street and was pronounced dead just after 7:30 p.m. The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and torso, Clevenger said.The incident is being investigated by the Coroner s Office and the Spartanburg Police Department.No other information was immediately released.
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A man was killed Sunday as he was walking in Spartanburg, the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office confirmed on Thursday.
Man killed in fight at a home in Spartanburg County, suspect arrested, police say
Fight occurred at a home on Asheville Highway Share Updated: 10:29 PM EST Jan 18, 2021 Anne Newman
Fight occurred at a home on Asheville Highway Share Updated: 10:29 PM EST Jan 18, 2021
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Show Transcript IN PICKENS COUNTY, TAGGART HOUCK, WYFF NEWS 4. CAROL: NEW TONIGHT IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY POLICE HAVE , MADE AN ARREST AFTER A DEADLY FIGHT AT A HOME. POLICE TELL US THEY ARRESTED SCOTTIE WILSON. THEY SAY THE FIGHT HAPPENED ON ASHEVILLE HIGHWAY AROUND NINE FRIDAY NIGHT. POLICE GOT A CALL ABOUT A FIGH WITH WEAPONS. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND 58-YEAR-OLD CHARLES FO
Spartanburg’s Police Chief Alonzo Thompson approached the city’s elected leaders in February and requested better pay for his officers a raise that hadn’t occurred since 2016.
Heads nodded in support behind the dais. It seemed for sure it would happen in the coming weeks to help a department that is currently ten officers short and has struggled with retention and recruitment as neighboring agencies pay better.
But then, the COVID-19 pandemic crept in and cast a dark cloud of financial uncertainty over residents, businesses and even government bodies.
When the city council inked a more conservative budget in July, police raises weren’t a part of it as the city braced for the pandemic’s impacts.