SC Judge keeps York County man shot by police after pointing gun in jail

McClatchy - Rock Hill Herald
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AI GeneratedThe defendant faces multiple charges including second-degree harassment, resisting arrest with a deadly weapon, and leading police on high-speed pursuits. While the defense claims the defendant was suicidal and pointed the weapon at himself, the court has granted the state's motion to revoke his bond due to his failure to comply with law enforcement.
Contact her, send her, um, give her phone calls.
I believe he sent her a package to her home.
Um, he sent her TikTok videos, um, numerous phone calls
and voicemails that have been sent and shared with defense.
I believe, um, at least a few of those law enforcement originally,
um, went to do a traffic stop on this defendant.
The Clover Police Department, I believe,
initiated a traffic stop last Tuesday evening.
in an attempt to apprehend this defendant
and serve him with his active harassment second
degree warrant. He did not stop for law enforcement
at that point in time and led law enforcement on
a high speed pursuit of law enforcement
and did point it at them as they were attempting to
apprehend this defendant for those active arrest warrants.
That has led to the additional charges
another failure to stop for a blue light leading
to a high-speed pursuit from
running on Wednesday as well resisting arrest
with a deadly weapon because he
did pull and point a firearm
at law enforcement as well as the pointing and
presenting firearms at a person your honor
the state failed to mention the
or seemed to want wish to admit
that my client had to go to the
hospital because he's been shot in the arm
and was taken into custody in fact
That's why he spent several days up in Gastonia before he
was eventually taken back to South Carolina.
I went to visit my client in the jail yesterday.
He'd been moved to Spartanburg.
Benny Baker's in Spartanburg.
They just moved him there for whatever reason,
and I was unable to talk to him yesterday.
I also understand from talking to my client
that his parents told him that his car,
in which this occurred on the 14th,
had about 27 bullet holes in it, or 27 rounds.
Luckily, my client was only hit by one of those.
My client makes a good living as a plumber, your honor.
He acknowledges that he felt he
was suicidal at this time with his pending
charges and everything else that was going on in his life.
He felt that he had pointed a gun
at anyone he says he was pointing at his own head.
He didn't stop for long
for two nights in a row and
and didn't have a gun in his hand for whatever reason.
That's a disrespect to authority in my reading.
And the motion to adjust the bond to surety,
I'm going to leave it unchanged
because I'm not sure that matters before me,
but I'm going to grant the state's motion to revoke the bond
because I think he needs to sit tight,
and perhaps not in Spartanburg in the closer years he can get ready,
but I'm not inclined to grant a bond to anybody
that doesn't stop the law enforcement two nights straight.
Can't do that.
And that's not my judgment of facts.
It's just the accusation, but that's not,
I would call that not good behavior.
So, grant your motion to remove.
So are fellas.
That's two of my, three of my.
