Fatal Shooting Remains Under Investigation
By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Aug. 27–POLICE
GEORGETOWN
Police are still investigating the fatal shooting that happened in Georgetown Friday evening, said Capt. Nelson Brown, with the Georgetown Police Department.
As of Sunday night, they hadn’t identified a suspect or a motive, he said.
Thirty-year-old Brad Anderson of Wood Street was shot at the corner of Duke and Fraser streets and then staggered to Georgetown Ice and Cold Storage, a 24-hour convenience store, where he collapsed near a gas tank at the business, said Georgetown County Coroner Kenny Johnson.
Anderson died of a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead about 11:50 p.m.
Brown said anyone with information about the case should call the Georgetown Police Department at 545-4300.
LOCAL
HORRY COUNTY
DHEC announces swim advisories
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control announced precautionary ocean water quality swim advisories for two more Horry County beaches Sunday.
Based on sampling done Saturday, DHEC has issued advisories for 200 feet above and below White Point Swash south of North Myrtle Beach and Singleton Swash in Arcadia Beach.
The agency advises that high bacteria levels have been detected in these areas and recommends that people do not swim in these sections of beach until the advisories are lifted.
It also continued an advisory issued Saturday for the swash at 13th Avenue South and lifted an advisory for the swash at 5th Avenue North, both in Surfside Beach.
Samples taken Sunday will be ready for analysis today, DHEC reports.
HORRY COUNTY
Schools’ transportation director lauded
Jim Wright, transportation director for Horry County Schools, has been recognized by the state Senate for his leadership and involvement in helping to pass legislation that established a 15-year replacement cycle for state-owned school buses.
The law, which passed this year, set standards for adequate seating on buses and annual bus inspections, and reduced the walking distance between a student’s home and bus stop from five-tenths to three-tenths of one mile, among other things.
GEORGETOWN COUNTY
Hospital to host several health screenings
Georgetown Hospital Systems Community Health Education Department will host the first in a series of several regional health screenings on Sept. 21 at Belin Memorial United Methodist Church Family Life Center from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.
The screenings are designed to provide greater community-wide access to health care resources and information.
In the next year, Regional Health Screenings will take place in Andrews, Plantersville, Georgetown, Socastee, Maryville and Hemingway, with each event focusing on specific health issues.
The Sept. 21 event will focus on prostate, breast, ovarian and oral cancer.
Although not mandatory, pre-registration packets for the event are available at the information lobby areas of Georgetown Memorial Hospital and Waccamaw Community Hospital, HealthPoint-Center for Health and Fitness, Francis B. Ford Cancer Treatment Center, and The Imaging Center at Waccamaw Medical Park.
For information call 520-8447 or visit www.GeorgetownHospitalSystem.org.
From staff reports
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