S.C. police make arrest in Hampton County killing
By The Associated Press Thursday, September 11, 2008COLUMBIA, S.C. - Authorities have arrested four men in the killing of a man shot three times in the head and dumped in a Jasper County ditch.
Coroner Martin Sauls III has said that 22-year-old Antonio Holmes was likely shot on the side of U.S. 601 three days before his body was found by deer hunters last month.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that three men are charged with murder. They are 31-year-old Myron Mitchell of New York; 28-year-old Travis Ward; 27-year-old Joseph Davis of Barnwell; and 24-year-old Gregory Graves of Estill.
A fourth man, 28-year-old Travis Ward of Ridgeland, is charged with accessory after the fact of murder. It wasn’t immediately clear if any of them had attorneys.
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