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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
CHARLESTON — One person was killed after shooting broke out on Johnson Street the night of April 27, several hours after gunfire erupted down the same roadway and injured a teenager during a weekend marred by violence in downtown Charleston. Charleston Police Department officers had been patrolling in the East Side neighborhood around 8:30 p.m. when they heard gunfire and rushed over to Johnson Street, said Sgt. Chris Stinson, spokesperson for the agency.
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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
NORTH CHARLESTON — City police took no chances that a serious threat was sent by text to 911 and they swarmed the North Charleston High School on April 25 in response. Well over a dozen police patrol vehicles, blue lights activated, were stationed on Jenkins Avenue as officers investigated an “unknown incident” at North Charleston High School.
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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Byrd |Tom Corwin |Caitlin Bell
CHARLESTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his stop here to announce a landmark initiative to expand access to cutting-edge treatments for sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder that disproportionately affects Black Americans, particularly in the South. During his brief visit Kennedy also met with U.S. Sen.
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3 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
WANDO — A late-night traffic stop in the area led to a Berkeley county sheriff's deputy shooting and injuring one person April 22. Deputies had been conducting an investigation near Clements Ferry Road and Rivers Reach Drive when they made a traffic stop, according to a news release. During the traffic stop, shots were fired and one civilian was injured. The civilian was transported to an area hospital. No deputies were injured in the shooting, the release states.
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3 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
More than four months after two Charleston police officers shot and killed a man on a downtown street, the department announced April 18 that the officers will not be criminally prosecuted. In a letter dated Jan. 10, 2025, Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson informed Charleston Police Department Chief Chito Walker that her office would not pursue charges against officers Anthony Vazquez and Darren Schlegel.
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3 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
NORTH CHARLESTON — A white porcelain urn adorned with a pink rose motif stood apart from a sea of family and friends clad in black, heavy metal T-shirts and ripped blue jeans as they held their tears in the corner of their eyes, lest their dark mascara run. Several dozens gathered April 17 to memorialize the life of Cheryl Lyn Gaydos Stypula, who was found dead in her apartment by police officers nearly three weeks ago. Authorities have charged her boyfriend with murder.
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3 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
NORTH CHARLESTON — What was once a lively Baptist church, with a near century-old congregation that grew to include more than a thousand parishioners, now sits empty and decrepit on Rivers Avenue. The historic façade of First Baptist Church, anchored by white columns juxtaposed with aging red brick, is being razed flat. The 40,000-plus square-foot site of the house of worship, sold late last year, overlooked a major North Charleston thoroughfare.
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4 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
MOUNT PLEASANT — The two northbound lanes that span Shem Creek have been closed to traffic as crews install a statue. The northbound lanes on Coleman Boulevard at the Shem Creek Bridge closed to traffic just after 1 p.m. April 16, according to an X post by the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Traffic has been rerouted into the southbound lanes as drivers share the roadway, cars flowing in both directions.
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4 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Caitlin Bell
JAMES ISLAND — Authorities located a dead man on an area roadway in the early evening April 15. Charleston County Sheriff's deputies responded to the Mosquito Beach community around 5 p.m. to find the individual lying in the street, according to a news release. First responders pronounced the man dead on the scene at the intersection of Sol Legare and Mosquito Beach roads. The county coroner's office has yet to release the man's identity nor his manner of death.
