The following reports were collected from local law enforcement offices:
Gunshot victim
A man who says he was using his rifle to shoot at dragonflies shot his friend in the head Tuesday afternoon.
Deputies were told the victim — a Johnsonville man — would meet them at Carvers Bay High School.
“Not knowing where the victim may be or where the shooter was, I advised the administration of Carvers Bay School to lock down the campus for student safety,” Deputy Ryan Owens wrote in his report. “Carvers Bay Middle was locked down as well.”
The truck with the victim was spotted at Carvers Bay Convenience Store, so deputies went there to talk to him but were unable to do so because he was bleeding profusely.
“EMS took him and immediately started to work on him,” the report states.
During the time he was alert, the man was able to tell deputies the shooting was an accident.
Reportedly, the victim and a 38-year-old Johnsonville man were in the woods in a nearby hunting club practicing with a rifle.
The older man said he was trying to shoot some dragonflies when the victim walked in front of him and was shot in the head.
The case has been ruled an accident by county investigators.
The victim was flown to a Charleston hospital. He was alert when he was being transported.
Gunshots and wreck
A 31-year-old man was injured Monday night when he ran his truck into a ditch on McDonald Road while fleeing a man with a gun
The man ran from his truck to a home on Congaree Lane after the wreck. When deputies arrived, they saw he was bleeding profusely.
He said he was at Mayo’s Club in Greentown when a man pointed a shotgun at him, so he sped away. He said as he was driving away he heard four gunshots. He said he was unsure if the man was shooting at him.
Authorities say he man was not faultless in the accident because he was charged with driving under the influence.
No shooter was found and no one else reported gunfire.
Party violence
A 24-year-old man said he went to a party on Kent Road when things got too loud. He said he told people to quiet down, which apparently did not sit well with another partier.
That man, started fighting the victim and then a third person joined in the altercation.
The victim said one of the two men pulled out a knife and cut him on the hand.
The 24-year-old then ran into the house and soon ran back outside carrying a handful of knives.
His two attackers jumped into their car to leave. As they were starting to drive away, the man who was cut picked up a jack and threw it through the driver’s side window.
EMS was called but the man refused treatment.
Possible rape
A 56-year-old Murrells Inlet woman told deputies there is a possibility she was raped Aug. 14 because when she woke up she was wearing different clothes than she had on when she went to bed.
She said her 75-year-old landlord, who lives in the upstate, was staying with her while he made repairs to the home.
She also said almost all of her pain medication was gone.
Deputies later spoke with a man who said he had slept in the bed with the woman but they did not have sex. He said at one point he saw her clothes were wet, so he helped her change clothes.
He said she was not assaulted and has no idea what happened to her medicine.
Passed out
A 54-year-old man from Huntington Station, NY, was charged with disorderly conduct after being found passed out in his car in the Waccamaw Hospital parking lot early Wednesday.
The man was “highly intoxicated” and had a hard time standing up after he was awakened by a deputy.
During a pat down, marijuana and a pipe were found in his pocket.
Stolen church signs
Signs were reported stolen from the parking lot of Herbert United Methodist Church in Kensington Monday.
The signs are: An entrance sign, an exit sign and an hours-of-operation sign.
Burglaries and breakins
800 block of West Virginia Road sometime within the past two weeks.
Taken: A piggy bank with $3 in change and a safe deposit box key.
• South Park Ave., Andrews, Aug. 7
Taken: flat screen TV, DVD player
• Island Shoes, Pawleys Island, Aug. 10
Taken: $2,000 in cash
• 13400 block of Saints Delight Road, Aug. 10
Taken: a TV, two game systems, carpet cleaner, eight guns
• Green Drive, Pawleys Island, Aug. 16
Taken: battery powered portable alarm system
• BB Smith’s Store in Sampit Aug. 15
Taken: 20 packs of cigarettes
• Jerusalem Baptist Center, Jones Ave., Andrews, Aug. 14
Taken: $5,000 worth of copper radiators
• 5400 block of County Line Road, Aug. 14
Taken: $1520 worth of gardening equipment
Compiled by Scott Harper