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THE SUMTER ITEM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
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Health care employees wear red for awareness Traci Quinn, captain of Tuomey Regional Medical Center’s Heart Walk team, directs the health care system’s employees into position for a group photograph Friday afternoon. The employees wore red as part of National Wear Red Day to raise awareness of women’s heart disease. KEITH GEDAMKE / THE ITEM
Were 3 slain for their religion or their parking space? CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Police are trying to determine whether hate played any role in the killing of three Muslims, a crime they said was sparked by a neighbor’s long-simmering anger about parking and noise inside their condominium complex. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, describes himself as a “gun-toting” atheist. Neighbors say he always seemed angry and confrontational. His ex-wife said he was
obsessed with the shooting-rampage movie “Falling Down” and showed “no compassion at all” for other people. His current wife, Karen Hicks, said he “champions the rights of others” and said the killings “had nothing do with religion or the victims’ faith.” Later Wednesday, she issued another statement, saying she’s divorcing him. Hicks appeared in court Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder in the
deaths Tuesday of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21; and her sister Razan Mohammad AbuSalha, 19. He pleaded indigence and was appointed a public defender. Officers were summoned by a neighbor who called 911 reporting five to 10 shots and the sound of people screaming. The women’s father, Mohammad Abu-Salha, said police told him each
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POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Richard Preusser, 38, of Sumter, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with his second offense of failing to register as a convicted sex offender after deputies determined he was residing with a woman and her children in Clarendon County without prior authorization. Jeremie Richardson, 31, of Sumter, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with his seventh offense of driving under suspension after a short car and foot chase along U.S. 15 near Nandina Street. Kristel Robertson, 27, of 20 Thelma St., was arrested Tuesday and charged with petit larceny after reportedly stealing $400 in jewelry from a business in the 4200 block of Broad Street on Dec. 20. Robert Watford, 41, of 2630 Highview St., was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree burglary after he reportedly tried to break into a home in the 2200 block of Swallow Drive on Jan. 17.
was shot in the head inside the couple’s apartment, and that he, for one, is convinced it was a hate crime. “The media here bombards the American citizen with Islamic, Islamic, Islamic terrorism and makes people here scared of us and hate us and want us out. So if somebody has any conflict with you, and they already hate you, you get a bullet in the head,” said AbuSalha, who is a psychiatrist.
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STOLEN PROPERTY About $8,000 worth of metal was reported stolen from a Wedgefield property in the 3800 block of S.C. 261 South after 2:15 p.m. Tuesday. Owners told deputies it was the second time thieve(s) had stolen from the property in less than two weeks. Antique trains valued at $2,000, antique Barbie dolls valued at $1,000, model antique planes valued at $1,000, microscopes valued at $500, fishing rods and reels valued at $250 and a baseball mitt valued at $250 were reported stolen from a Wedgefield storage trailer in the first block of Odom Lane about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday. A 2009 Polaris ATV valued at $14,000 was reported stolen from a back yard in the 3500 block of Green View Parkway at 7 p.m. Tuesday. A thick gold chain valued at $1,000 was reported stolen from a pawn shop in the first block of West Liberty Street about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.
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