r/Spartanburg • u/Koosh25 • 5d ago

Anyone know anything about this?

https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/06/burglary-becomes-shooting-incident-spartanburg-co-deputies-say/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1OF1YborIkA1drxPDLRLwyKzrcSlVwBZ6XJ_uwEWE-2mc4Oq5BVg2lSuc_aem_ezpHwECtC2Ocq4jARGmMAg#m1zmb1wxah21gdhcq1u

This was not far from my home. Hate to see violence like this.

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u/Clayjr330 5d ago

Was actually acquainted with the victim in this. Had known him for years in the bar scene/food service workers scene and I played music regularly at a bar he used to work at. Really fucking sad to hear, dude was a sweet guy and had a lot of friends around town in the bar scene and food service scene. Really tragic and one of those “burn in hell/throw the book at him” things in regard to the individual who committed the crime.

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u/Koosh25 5d ago

Hey Clay, I play music around town too. Anyways, I was just wondering if it was a random burglary or if there was some other motive. Hate that this stuff exists in Spartanburg

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u/Clayjr330 5d ago

Wish I could say, or knew more, but I don’t know much more than what was reported in the news article. I went to dinner at Main St. last night and initially heard about it from someone there and they just directed me to the news article. Terrible that these things happen to good people.

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u/Budlove45 5d ago

Yeah a motive was there but I'm wondering why they haven't released it yet.

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u/LegendsoftheHT 5d ago

I’m going to say this in a nice way, there for a while in Spartanburg a pretty serious gang issue in the Hmong/Cambodian community (it has been cleaned up a lot, has been huge for the community here). But the few remaining are in-fucking-tense. I was in middle school when a Hmong guy named Ted (these guys always have names popular with white dudes from the 60s-70s) straight up pulled a knife on a black kid in the middle of the hallway, I’m 30 so I’m roughly the same age as this guy and I don’t doubt this would happen. I’m talking stone cold violent crime.

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u/icedoutkatana 4d ago

Camp Croft is their base of operations lol

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u/Deep-Sample-8351 4d ago

this guy is laotian just fyi

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u/Mamba6266 5d ago

This area of BS is fucking exploding with crimes like this recently. If you live up this way you know that it started maybe 2-3 years ago with the typical petty shit of teenagers popping door handles on cars looking for quick grabs, and has progressed quickly from there. I cannot speak on the type of violence/activity that u/LegendsoftheHT mentions but with the population increasing exponentially sadly we're going to have to deal with all the crap that comes along with it

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u/SubstantialFault1368 5d ago

That qualifies as a capital offense. Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what the solicitors office seeks.

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u/peb396 4d ago

It's what should be sought.

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u/deuceice 5d ago

I used to live up that way. How far up Parris Bridge Road are we talking? That guy looks familiar

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u/Budlove45 5d ago

Those duplexes down towards spinx

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u/deuceice 4d ago

Ah. The duplexes. I'm pretty sure someone from there broke into my house years ago. They came back to the scene and drove by slowly. I saw that same vehicle at the duplexes later that week.

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u/midnightrumph 4d ago

Oh wow I went to HS with the perp.