STATE BRIEFS

2-year-old run over

SPARTANBURG — Authorities charged a Spartanburg County man of driving drunk when he ran over his 2-year-old son in the driveway and injured him.

Police charged 33-year-old Clay West of Pacolet with felony driving under the influence and child endangerment.

Police Chief Robert Ivey said West ran over his son, Gage, when he pulled into his driveway Sunday afternoon. The chief said West parked and got out of his Jeep Cherokee. He said West didn't realize what he'd done until he got back into his vehicle, began backing up and saw his son on the ground.

West remained in jail Monday morning. A bond hearing was expected later in the day. It was unclear if West had a lawyer.

The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported the toddler was in fair condition at a hospital.

Greenville man stabbed to death

GREENVILLE — Greenville County officials have released the name of a man found stabbed at an apartment complex.

Deputy Coroner Kent Dill told The Greenville News on Sunday the victim was 43- year-old Gilbert John Sherard.

Dill says Sherard died of a stab wound to the chest late Saturday night after surgery at Greenville Memorial Hospital.

The sheriff's office says 46-year-old Nathaniel Choice is charged with murder. Jail officials did not know Monday if Choice had an attorney.

Master Deputy Michael Hildebrand says deputies were called to an apartment complex about 9 p.m. Saturday. Hildebrand says deputies found Sherard on the stoop with several stab wounds.

Hildebrand said investigators don't know what the men had argued about before the stabbing.

Children drown in swimming pool

EASLEY — Pickens County officials say a boy and his younger sister drowned in a swimming pool at their home in Easley.

Coroner Jim Mahanes says the incident around noon Sunday was apparently an accident.

Mahanes told The Greenville News that 3-yearold Carter Emery and 2- year-old Lacie Emery were pronounced dead at Palmetto Health Baptist Easley. Mahanes says investigators think the children might have climbed a fence to get to the pool.

He says the children's mother was there and the details of what happened are still unclear. He would not release the parents' names.

No charges have been filed. A spokesman for the Pickens County sheriff's office would not talk about the investigation.

Summerville soldier laid to rest

NORTH CHARLESTON — A Summerville native killed in Iraq earlier this month has been buried in North Charleston.

Staff Sergeant Matthew Taylor was remembered Sunday as an exemplary soldier, loving husband and father.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the 25- year-old Taylor had enlisted in the Army the day after the September 11 terror attacks in 2001.

Taylor was killed by hostile small arms fire September 21 while on patrol in Baghdad.

Taylor had called his family the day before he died, to wish his 5-year-old daughter a happy birthday. He was to have returned home in November.

State News RSS feed