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THE SUMTER ITEM
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2016
POLICE BLOTTER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Secret Service Police Officers tell pedestrians to get back on State Place Northwest near the White House in Washington on Friday after the White House was placed on a security alert after a shooting on a street outside.
Secret Service shoots gunman outside White House on Friday BY BEN NUCKOLS The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House on Friday afternoon and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret Service said. The White House was briefly placed on a security alert after the shooting, which happened within view of sightseers as sidewalks were crowded with families, school groups and government workers. The armed man approached the checkpoint on E Street shortly after 3 p.m., and the officer repeatedly ordered the man to drop his gun, but the man ignored those commands, according to a statement from David Iacovetti, a Secret Service deputy assistant director. The officer fired one shot at the man, who was taken to a hospital for treatment, and the gun was recovered at the scene, Iacovetti said. The man was in critical condition when he was transported, a D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman said. President Obama was away playing golf at the time, but Vice President Joe Biden was in the White House complex and was secured during the
lockdown, his office said. The lockdown was lifted about an hour after the shooting. The gunman never made it inside the White House complex, and no one else was injured, the Secret Service said. Federal agents found ammunition inside a Toyota sedan, parked nearby on Constitution Avenue, that the gunman was thought to have driven, a U.S. law enforcement official said, speaking on condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to release the information. Sightseer Jenna Noelle of Austin, Texas, said she had just taken a photo of the White House when she noticed a man harassing an agent. Then, “as we were walking away we heard a shot fired; then some people started
running away and agents had guns and were evacuating people.” “I had a panic attack,” she said. “I’m doing OK now, but it was pretty freaky to be right there a second before it happened. Not really the experience we wanted.” Community activist Akil Patterson said he heard a single gunshot while waiting in a security line. Within seconds, a security guard shouted to drop to the ground, and then he was evacuated to the street. Patterson said he was at the White House to get a presidential award for his work with Baltimore teens. He says his community work aims to “get rid of the notion that gun violence is the answer.” Associated Press writer Kathleen Hennessey in Washington contributed to this report.
Charles Galligan, 62, of Lot 2, 4327 Blanche Road, has been arrested by Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and charged with second-degree assault and battery. According to the warrant, he was in an argument with the victim when he struck him on the head with a metal pipe. The victim was taken to Palmetto Health Tuomey for treatment while Galligan has been detained in the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center to await a bond hearing. Hiram Amerson, 53, of 725 West Emerald Lake Drive, had a rifle seized from his vehicle about 8 p.m. Monday after police officers ran a criminal history check and determined that he was prohibited from possessing firearms under the Federal Gun Control Act of 1968. Amerson was charged with weapon law violations but he was not arrested. Sharon Rivers, 43, of 1402 Williams Way, Beech Island, is charged with forging and cashing a series of counterfeit checks, allegedly defrauding Mental Health Center-Santee of $2,716. According to Sumter Police Department, the checks were all cashed at Walmart and made out to and signed by Sharon Rivers. Alexis Carter, 24, of 1199 Lafayette Drive, has been charged by police of fraud and sale of property with lien. Carter allegedly sold a 2006 Pontiac G6 to the victim for $1,300 but did not give the title at that time. Christopher Ricardo Jackson, 21, of 1232 Collingwood Drive, has been charged by Sumter County Sheriff’s Office with malicious injury to property. According to the warrant, Jackson reportedly damaged the sprinkler head in his jail cell at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center last Monday, activating the fire alarm and flooding his cell, which resulted in about $1,500
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in damage. Kevin Charles Kellenbenz, 35, of 19 Simmons Street, was arrested Wednesday for an armed robbery that reportedly took place in Sumter County on Aug. 28. According to the warrant, the suspect pointed a handgun at the victim and robbed him of an undisclosed amount of money. The victim was uninjured and was later able to identify Kellenbenz as the person who robbed him, according to the report. The suspect is being held in the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.
STOLEN PROPERTY A 2002 Black Ford Escort with SC tag MGY111 was reported stolen from about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday from ta business in the 400 block of North Main Street. The suspect, a black woman the victim knew as “Kiki,” was described as being 5 foot 2 inches tall and about 30 years old. DAMAGED PROPERTY Four vehicles parked in front of a business in the 100 block of East Wesmark Boulevard Thursday night reportedly sustained about $1,400 in property damages. Personal items valued at about $470 wre reportedly stolen from two of the vehicles. A 20-year old man reported to police Thursday about 2:30 p.m. that the driver of a white Volkswagen Jetta followed him from Loring Mill Road area to Pitts Road before pulling alongside and firing a shot into the victim’s Ford Taurus station wagon in an apparent road rage incident. The shot was fired into the victim’s driver side door window, shattering the glass and inflicting lacerations on the victim. According to the victim, the Jetta then made a Uturn and went back toward McCrays Mill Road. Anyone who might have witnessed the incident or has information about it is asked to call Sumter County Sheriff’s Office at (803) 436-2000.
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