S. Carolina Grand Jury Indicts Ex-Cop for Man’s Death
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A white former police chief of a small South Carolina town was charged yesterday with murder in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man.
A grand jury in Orangeburg, South Carolina, returned an indictment against Richard Combs, the former police chief of Eutawville, South Carolina, a town of about 300 people halfway between Columbia and Charleston. Combs allegedly shot and killed 54-year-old Bernard Bailey on May 2, 2011, following an altercation in front of the Eutawville town hall.