It’s been more than two years since 22-year-old Shirley McKenzie was shot and killed inside a former Lexington County nightclub. Twenty eight months later, no arrests have been made. “Just because time moves on doesn’t mean the case ever closes,” said Sgt. Shaun Spivey of the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. “We’re going to continue to […]
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 […]