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SOCASTEE

Two men charged after standoff

Two Myrtle Beach men were charged Thursday after a shooting and two-hour standoff that forced the evacuation of nearby residents in a Socastee condominium complex.

The victim of the shooting was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the South Strand Ambulatory Care Center, Horry County Police Sgt. Robert Kegler said.

Michael Jamel Willis, 24, was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to the news release from Kegler.

Brandon Martell Horton, 25, was charged with accessory after the fact of a felony.

Both men are currently at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center.

Police initially were looking for one suspect and had chased him into the Villas at Palmetto Pointe.

HORRY COUNTY

One stabbed, treated by EMS

Police are investigating a stabbing that occurred just before 5 p.m. Thursday, said Sgt. Robert Kegler with the Horry County Police Department.

The incident happened shortly at 1921 Polaris Court.

EMS treated the victim for a the injury at the scene in the 1900 block of Polaris Court, he said.

One person was in custody Thursday night but no charges had been filed.

MYRTLE BEACH

Baby born with cocaine, woman charged

A Myrtle Beach woman was jailed late Wednesday on charges of homicide by child abuse, according to jail records.

Tickeisha Moranda Walton-Grant, 38, of 8109 Shady Grove Road was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center at 6:42 p.m. Wednesday, according to jail records.

Walton-Grant was charged with one count of homicide by child abuse, according to an arrest warrant. The charge stemmed from Jan. 2 when she gave birth at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center to a stillborn baby boy after 35 weeks of pregnancy.

The warrant alleges that an autopsy showed deadly levels of cocaine in the baby's blood. Walton-Grant told hospital staff she used crack cocaine during her pregnancy, according to the warrant.

MYRTLE BEACH

Myrtle Beach man moved to state prison

A Myrtle Beach man was transferred to a state prison on Wednesday after he was sentenced to serve six years in prison on charges he threw fireworks into a pizza delivery driver's car and burned the teen in 2008.

Marcus Rush, 25, was moved from J. Reuben Long Detention Center to Kirkland Evaluation Center, according to jail records. His projected release date is Dec. 12, 2012.

Rush pleaded guilty last week to two counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, one charge for the firework incident and the other for an unrelated sexual assault that involved a 13-year-old girl.

The sentences were part of negotiated pleas agreed upon by the victims and their families in the cases, prosecutors said.

Rush was arrested July 15, 2008, and charged with assault and battery with intent to kill after he threw a roman candle through a car window that stuck in the pants of then 16-year-old Jacob Robinson, who was working his first day as a pizza delivery driver.

Robinson was making a delivery and had stopped on Racepath Avenue in Myrtle Beach to ask a group of people for directions when Rush threw the firework into Robinson's vehicle.

Robinson suffered burns over 15 percent of his body. He was hospitalized for 10 days at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga.

The day after his arrest in the firework assault, Rush was placed on house arrest, but he was arrested again in April 2009 and charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor younger than 16.

Myrtle Beach

84-year-old woman pursues purse thief

An 84-year-old Myrtle Beach woman and her daughter chased a man who stole the older woman's purse from her lap as they sat in a car Wednesday evening, according to a police report.

The thief threw the purse into a wooded area, but not before he took the cash from it about 7 p.m. Wednesday in the 1800 block of Greens Boulevard, police said.

The woman said the man went to the passenger side, opened the door and grabbed her mother's purse and then ran. The woman followed him in her vehicle to a parking lot where he got into a vehicle and she drove up behind it.

The woman said the man then jumped out of the vehicle and ran into a wooded area where he threw the purse before he ran away, according to the report.

Conway

Conway home damaged by fire

Conway firefighters are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged a home off S.C. 905, according to authorities.

The fire was reported about 2 a.m. by someone passing by the home on Glass Hill Drive and a neighbor who was awakened by a barking dog and saw the fire, said Conway Battalion Chief Arnold Spain.

The family inside the home and their pets got out safely, he said.

It took firefighters about 45 minutes to contain the blaze and no one was hurt during the incident, Spain said.