How many people have been killed by the serial killer in Cherokee County, SC?
Five people have been shot dead — some bound before dying — in the past week in the largely rural county southwest of Charlotte, N.C. Fourth of July celebrations were canceled, residents armed themselves and Sheriff Bill Blanton advised traveling salesmen not to knock on doors and asked people who broke down on roads not to ask locals for help because “people are going to start shooting at shadows.” “Every tip that comes in, we are sending out investigators and following any lead,” Gaffney Police Chief Rick Turner said at a news conference Saturday. Abby Tyler, 15, died Saturday in a Spartanburg, S.C., hospital after fighting for her life for nearly two days. She and her father, Stephen Tyler, 48, were both shot Thursday evening as they closed the family store in Gaffney, S.C. Abby’s mother and sister found her wounded and her father dead. On Wednesday, relatives found 83-year-old Hazel Linder and her 50-year-old daughter, Gena Linder Parker, bound and shot to death at Linder’s home. <
A 15-year-old South Carolina girl who was shot earlier this week by a man authorities say fits the description of a serial killer has died, police said Saturday. Abby Tyler died at 11:25 a.m. Saturday at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, said Chief Rick Turner of the Gaffney Police Department. Her father, Stephen Tyler, 48, was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting Thursday in the family-run furniture and appliance store, Tyler Home Center, in Gaffney. On Friday, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office released a second sketch of a man believed to have fatally shot five people in less than a week. “Let me say that under the FBI’s definition of a serial killer, yes, we have a serial killer,” Sheriff Bill Blanton said in Gaffney, a town in the county of about 54,000 residents 50 miles southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina. He would not detail what has led investigators to conclude the shootings are linked or how they received the description of the suspect that has led to the two
GAFFNEY, S.C. – Deputies were searching to find the man they believe has killed five people in a week, a South Carolina sheriff said on Monday. Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the three separate shootings were linked through evidence. Blanton, the sheriff, said all the victims were shot, but he would not say how the deaths were linked. The shootings all occurred within about 10 miles of each other in Cherokee County, a community of 54,000 people set amid peach orchards and farms some 50 miles west of Charlotte, N.C. “We’re knee-deep in the investigation,” Blanton had said. Investigators have released a sketch of the suspect, saying he is in his 40s and roughly 200 pounds. They think he is driving a silver 1991-1994 Ford Explorer. Sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.
