Police | Man to face attempted murder charges

POLICE

CONWAY

Man to face attempted murder charges

A Conway man was jailed early Monday on attempted murder and weapon charges after police had been searching for him this month in connection with a shooting in December, according to authorities.

Marquis Terrell Cox, 28, of Conway was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center at 3:08 a.m. Monday on two attempted murder charges, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and failure to appear, according to jail records. He is being held without bail on the attempted murder and weapon charges, while bail was set at $455.51 for the failure to appear charge.

The attempted murder and weapon charges were filed early in January against Cox after Conway police issued warrants for his arrest in connection with a shooting that occurred Dec. 11 on Ducket Street, according to authorities.

MYRTLE BEACH

Man returns stolen canopy, gives name

A Myrtle Beach man is being sought by police for taking a canopy from Wal-Mart and then returning it for a cash refund, according to a police report.

The 51-year-old gave his name to the cashier when he returned the outdoor canopy, valued at $79.88, and officers planned to charge him once warrants were obtained for his arrest, police said. The cashier identified a picture of the man shown by police.

The Sun News does not identify suspects until warrants for their arrest are obtained by police.

MYRTLE BEACH

Shoplifting attempt fails after booty falls

Myrtle Beach police are investigating a report that two men tried to steal a chain saw from Home Depot by throwing it over a fenced area in the garden center area, according to a police report.

Officers were called about 6:15 p.m. Sunday to the store at 951 Oak Forest Lane for an attempted shoplifting, police said. The men selected a chain saw, valued at $299, and then threw it toward the top of a fence in the landscape area of the store.

The saw struck the top of the fence and fell onto a large steel display rack and the men left the store, according to the report.

MYRTLE BEACH

Gas price drop continues

The price for a gallon of gasoline continued to decrease last week in the Myrtle Beach area to average $3.22 per gallon on Sunday, according to MyrtleBeachGasPrices.com.

Even with the change in prices last week, the average remained 30.3 cents per gallon higher than a year ago and is 19 cents per gallon higher than a month ago, according to the site.

The changes in the Myrtle Beach area do not reflect the national average, which increased 0.6 cents per gallon last week to average $3.34, according to the site.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Seven die on state highways over weekend

Seven people have been killed on S.C. highways from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday, according to a preliminary figure released Monday from the S.C. Department of Public Safety.

As of Sunday, 47 people have been killed on S.C. highways compared to 30 people during the same time period in 2011, officials said.

Of the 35 motor vehicle occupants who have died so far this year, 20 were not wearing seat belts.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH

Driver jailed in crash that killed woman

A North Myrtle Beach man is being held on $100,000 bail on charges related to a fatal vehicle crash earlier this month, according to jail records.

Ryan Roszel, 21, is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center where he had been since he was booked Jan. 15, according to records. Roszel is charged with felony driving under the influence resulting in death and felony driving under the influence resulting in great bodily injury and an unrelated failure to appear charge.

Police said Roszel was driving a 1997 Honda that struck a ditch and then a light pole at 10:11 p.m. Jan. 14 on 100 Carriage Lake Drive, near the intersection of S.C. 90 and S.C. 31 in Little River.

Gail Lynch, 34, of Little River was ejected from the vehicle during the crash and pronounced dead at the scene, Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick said at the time of the crash.

Another passenger – a 24-year-old man from Little River – also was injured and no one in the vehicle was wearing a seatbelt, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.

The S.C. Highway Patrol’s Multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team is investigating the crash.

Local

CONWAY

CCU to host FOIA panel discussion

Coastal Carolina University’s Department of Communications is hosting a panel discussion on the use and misuse of the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Recital Hall at the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, according to CCU spokeswoman Mona Prufer.

The event is part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the founding of Edwards College, Prufer said.

The panel members will be Edgar Dyer, executive vice president and chief operating officer of CCU; Jay Bender, the state’s leading media attorney and University of South Carolina professor of law and mass communications; John Weaver, former Horry County administrator and attorney; Bill Rogers, executive director of the South Carolina Press Association; Carolyn Murray, executive editor of The Sun News; and Shane Norris, editor of The Chanticleer, CCU’s student newspaper.

The panel members each will discuss open records and open access from their unique perspectives – Dyer from the vantage point of public education, Weaver from local government, Bender and Rogers from legal and historic viewpoints, and Murray and Norris from the working journalists’ view, Prufer said.

From staff and wire reports