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Man kills ex-wife's boyfriend, self
WEST COLUMBIA -- Investigators said a South Carolina man forced his way into the home of his ex-wife's boyfriend and killed him before driving away and committing suicide.
West Columbia Police Capt. Seth Zeigler said 28-year-old Gerald Heyward Copeland shot 39-year-old Clyde Jacob Yarborough several times Sunday morning after breaking out a window in the back door of Yarborough's home.
Zeigler said Copeland's ex-wife was also in the home, but wasn't hurt.
Richland County deputies said Copeland was found dead several miles away in a car suffering from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
N.C. man dies in tubing incident
SALEM -- Authorities said a 21-year-old North Carolina man has died while riding an inner tube on a South Carolina lake after the rope towing the tube got tangled around his neck.
Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said Sunday that Brandon Godfrey of Hope Mills, N.C., died about an hour after he was found floating unconscious in Lake Jocassee.
Addis said Godfrey was on an inner tube with another man Saturday when the rope broke and he was found floating face down in the water. He died at the hospital about an hour later.
Motive sought in Socastee killing
MYRTLE BEACH -- Police said they have a suspect but haven't figured out a motive in a fatal shooting at a mobile home park in Socastee.
Authorities told multiple media outlets that 28-year-old Sylvester Smart Jr. died at 3:10 a.m. Saturday, about an hour after he was found wounded in the chest.
Investigators say they have a suspect in the shooting, but would not release his name or why he might have killed the victim.
Police seek man in fatal shooting
LAURENS -- Authorities are searching for a man charged with killing another man found dead outside a South Carolina home.
Laurens County Sheriff Ricky Chastain told multiple media outlets that a murder warrant was issued Saturday for 30-year-old Samuel G. Mosley.
Chastain said that Mosley shot and killed 43-year-old Albert W. Hoyte on Friday night at a home near Laurens and wounded a woman.
The sheriff says Hoyte and the woman ran out of the house in opposite directions and deputies found Hoyte dead in the yard of a nearby home.
Chastain said another man in the home was charged with obstruction of justice after lying to investigators and withholding information.
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