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the murder of Cyrus Carmack-Belton
Thursday, June 1st, 2023 04:38 amhttps://www.wistv.com/2023/05/30/columbia-convenience-store-owner-charged-with-murder-shooting-death-14-year-old-boy/
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179367061/a-south-carolina-store-owner-accused-of-fatally-shooting-a-boy-is-charged-with-m
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/14-year-old-fatally-shot-back-sc-store-owner-sheriff-says-rcna86855
This happened here Sunday evening. A gas station owner chased a 14 year old Black boy out of his store and shot him in the back, killing him. From what is reported, the man chased and killed him because he mistakenly thought he stole a few bottles of water. It is horrible and makes no sense.
I don't know if it has been in the national news much? On Tuesday afternoon, Qiao texted me a link to a news article about it, which was the first I'd heard of it. Later I turned on the local 11pm news a few minutes late and heard a report, not about the killing but about the reprisal looting and vandalism at the gas station afterwards. I haven't managed to catch the news on TV since then, but have read several news articles and they all provide mostly the same limited information.
The NBC article says it happened around 8pm on Sunday night. By chance, I drove right by that gas station around 9:40pm the same night! Around 1:40am, I drove by it again in the other direction. Neither time did I notice anything out of the ordinary.
One article said a witness to the shooting called 911. So I would think the police and ambulance had been there already before I drove by the first time. It makes me wonder how far away from the gas station the boy was chased.
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News video links:
Sheriff: Cyrus Carmack-Belton shot and killed by gas station owner: full news conference
2023/05/29 (via News 19 WLTX)
Deputies: Hundreds of service calls made in last 5 years to gas station owned by man charged in teen
2023/05/31 (News 19 WLTX)
South Carolina store owner charged in teen's murder has history of shooting at customers
2023/06/01 (NBC News)
Principal, teachers remember teen killed
2023/06/01 (News 19 WLTX)
Cyrus Carmack-Belton remembered as 'intelligent, well-liked' by school
2023/06/01 (News 19 WLTX)
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179367061/a-south-carolina-store-owner-accused-of-fatally-shooting-a-boy-is-charged-with-m
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/14-year-old-fatally-shot-back-sc-store-owner-sheriff-says-rcna86855
This happened here Sunday evening. A gas station owner chased a 14 year old Black boy out of his store and shot him in the back, killing him. From what is reported, the man chased and killed him because he mistakenly thought he stole a few bottles of water. It is horrible and makes no sense.
I don't know if it has been in the national news much? On Tuesday afternoon, Qiao texted me a link to a news article about it, which was the first I'd heard of it. Later I turned on the local 11pm news a few minutes late and heard a report, not about the killing but about the reprisal looting and vandalism at the gas station afterwards. I haven't managed to catch the news on TV since then, but have read several news articles and they all provide mostly the same limited information.
The NBC article says it happened around 8pm on Sunday night. By chance, I drove right by that gas station around 9:40pm the same night! Around 1:40am, I drove by it again in the other direction. Neither time did I notice anything out of the ordinary.
One article said a witness to the shooting called 911. So I would think the police and ambulance had been there already before I drove by the first time. It makes me wonder how far away from the gas station the boy was chased.
...
News video links:
Sheriff: Cyrus Carmack-Belton shot and killed by gas station owner: full news conference
2023/05/29 (via News 19 WLTX)
Deputies: Hundreds of service calls made in last 5 years to gas station owned by man charged in teen
2023/05/31 (News 19 WLTX)
South Carolina store owner charged in teen's murder has history of shooting at customers
2023/06/01 (NBC News)
Principal, teachers remember teen killed
2023/06/01 (News 19 WLTX)
Cyrus Carmack-Belton remembered as 'intelligent, well-liked' by school
2023/06/01 (News 19 WLTX)