A Columbia woman has been charged with murder in the strangulation death of her mother. Daphaney Denise Smith, 37, strangled her mother to death at a home the two women shared with Smith’s grandmother on Emory Lane in the Columbia area of Lexington County, according to an arrest warrant. “Investigators believe Ms. Smith killed her […]
Deputies arrested Phillip Heyward Yarborough Jr. Sunday afternoon. Yarborough, 35, is charged with malicious injury to personal property. He was taken into custody at his residence in the 100 block of Palm Point Drive in the Columbia area of Lexington County after deputies interviewed witnesses and determined there was probable cause to arrest Yarborough for […]
A North Charleston man has been arrested and charged after a series of crimes at three Lexington County businesses. John Dytrych, 29, is charged with two counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, possessing a weapon during a violent crime and attempting to purchase more than nine grams of pseudoephedrine in 30 days, according to arrest […]
An active shooter situation can happen in the blink of an eye. “Nowhere is immune to it happening, no state, no city,” said Capt. Hampton Taylor of the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. “Nobody ever thought it would happen to them until it does so it’s critical that we build those relationships, those communication channels and […]