Alan Hovorka

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

GOOSE CREEK — A 21-year-old man from Summerville died after a stabbing on May 25, according to the Berkeley County Coroner's Office. Lucas Mortins died at an area hospital after 8 a.m. on May 25, said Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell. Mortins was taken to the hospital after a report of a stabbing at about 6:15 a.m. on Harbor Lake Drive in Goose Creek. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death as a homicide, Hartwell said.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

BEVERLY HILLS — Authorities are investigating an overnight housefire in rural Berkeley County that killed one person. Daniel John Skinner, 69, was pronounced dead after firefighters pulled him from a burning home after midnight on May 27 on Kathryn Drive in rural Berkeley County, said Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell. An autopsy is pending.

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

CHARLESTON — Federal agents swarmed a Bank of America parking lot on May 21 to seize a Brazilian man carrying $7,000 in cash and checks. Agents arrested Jose Rivelino Serafim Da Silva, intercepting him before he could cash other the checks at area banks on behalf of construction contractors employing undocumented immigrant workers, federal prosecutors said in U.S. District Court on May 23.

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

NORTH CHARLESTON — A struggle for control of a handgun between an off-duty Mount Pleasant police officer and her partner ended in a domestic shooting outside an aquatics center May 18, police say. North Charleston Police officers found a man, 28, and a woman, 26, in a car after responding to a shooting at about 2 a.m., May 18 at the North Charleston Aquatics Center at 8610 Patriot Blvd, according to an incident report. Police initially labeled the shooting as a possible case of domestic violence.

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

ST. GEORGE — A Dorchester County jury acquitted a North Charleston man who testified in his own defense that he shot at someone when he saw the man reach for a gun. John Allen Hilton was found not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Isa Duward Cooper, which occurred at about 1 a.m., May 23, 2021 outside a strip mall on 8400 Block of Dorchester Road. A second man who was initially also charged with murder, Benjamin Davis, is charged as being an accomplice in Cooper's death.