A man is recovering from gashes on his head and body after two men assaulted him with a hammer and baseball bat near Bowman, according to an Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
More trials are incoming that stem from the riot that happened at the Lee Correctional Institution. Additional guilty pleas were also heard in Bishopville.
A former military police officer will spend the rest of her natural life in prison for the execution-style shooting death of her girlfriend in 2022 in Longs. Yunique Demesa Weathers, 23, of Fayetteville was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 20 for murdering De-Erica Fisher in January, 2022.
The defendant, 21-year-old Bluffton man Ty Leic Chaneyfield, was the second of four suspects to stand trial for the March 2021 murder of Dwon “D.J.” Fields.