Korey Love Denied Bail in Issac Bass Murder
One of the men who brutally gunned down Issac Bass was denied bail today due to his being a danger to the community and more importantly, his family’s attempts to help him flee South Carolina:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A judge denied bond today for the man accused of shooting a Wendy’s restaurant employee in Greenville three years ago.
Last month, police charged Korey Love, 21, of Taylors, with murder, attempted armed robbery and two weapons violations in the death of Isaac Bass.
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During Love’s bond hearing, the prosecutor said someone driving by called 911, but did not stop, after hearing gun shots and seeing two young men running away from the restaurant.
“The passer-by would not stop because they were afraid of violence,” wept Marvelin Bass, the victim’s father. “Why would you turn another violent person loose?”
But wait, it gets worse:
(Assistant Solicitor Lisa) Bentley told Judge Robin Stilwell that Love’s arrest follows information investigators received from the defendant’s relatives.
“This relative had overheard this defendant confess to his father that he had gone to Wendy’s in an attempt to rob the store and had ended up shooting a man outside that had tried to stop him,” Bentley said.
The prosecutor also said Love was dating an employee at Wendy’s and had planned for weeks to rob the store.
Bentley described Love as a flight risk who had no close relatives in the area.
“His father is trying to get him out of South Carolina and away from these pending charges,” Bentley told the judge.
Frankly his father should be charged as an accessory after the fact. Let’s pray for justice for the Bass family.
Store Clerk Fends of Armed Gunman … With Hot Lead
Fox Carolina’s headline is a bit misleading. They say “Two shot During Robbery Attempt in Anderson” but what they fail to mention is that the clerk gunned down the robber after the thug shot him. The clerk was only shot in the hand so this is a happy ending and yet another victory for the Second Amendment:
The shooting happened at the Eastside Food Mart at 609 E. Whitner Street at about 11 a.m.
Randall Williams, of the Anderson Police Department, said that a 17-year-old walked into the store armed with a gun. He said that the clerk pulled out his own gun and a shootout began.
Williams said that the clerk was shot in the hand. He said the teen was shot in the chest and arm and ran out of the store. He said that the teen was later found collapsed on Jefferson Street.
I’m glad the clerk was able to exercise his Constitutional rights and defend himself.
Update: The Independent Mail reports that the owner is fine and back on the job:
ANDERSON — A store owner in Anderson was shot and he returned fire this morning shooting at least one person.
The shootings happened inside the Eastside Foodmart store at 609 Whitner St. and Dickens Avenue.
The store owner, an Ethiopian man whose name and age have not been released by police, was shot in the hand. He was back at his store around 12:30 p.m. with a bandaged right hand.
The owner shot a black male between 17 and 18 years old in the chest and wrist, according to Randall Williams, public information officer for the city of Anderson Police Department. Police have not released the name of that man.
That man went from the store to a friend’s house at 114 Jefferson Ave, Williams said.
He was taken from the Jefferson Avenue scene by ambulance to AnMed Health Medical Center.
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The store has been opened for about a week or a week and a half and is a typical community grocery-type store, said Dale Powell, who lives nearby but was not around when the shooting happened.
“They’re nice people,” Powell said, about the owner and his wife.
And we wish them the best.
Three Men Arrested for Pelham Road Purse Snatching
Left to right: Gabriel Donaldson, Recardo Thompson, & Kenneth Burnside
A 21-year-old Marietta man is behind bars at the Greenville County Detention Center for allegedly snatching the purse of a 60-year-old woman. Even worse, this gutless sleazeball, sorry, allegedly gutless sleazeball needed two accomplices to help him pull off the violent robbery:
The incident happened around 1 pm Friday afternoon in front of Dallas Skye Salon on Pelham Road. Greenville Police say that 21-year old Gabriel Lamont Donaldson, of Marietta, admitted to snatching the purse of a 60 year old woman and causing massive bruises to the victim’s shoulder.
Donaldson, who police say also admitted to being the driver of a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria that was involved in the robbery, has been charged with strong armed robbery. Two other men, 20-year old Recardo Darel Thompson and 21-year old Kenneth Jamar Burnside, both of Travelers Rest, have been charged with accessory after the fact of a felony.
All three men have failed to make bond.
Two More AT&T Stores Hit by Smash and Grab Phone Bandits
What’s odd is that so far they have only hit AT&T stores. Either some other retailer is using some seriously unfair tactics to close down the competition or the black market gets some sort of great deal on AT&T service.
Finally a decent crime report from GreenvilleOnline.com:
GREER — Cell phones were stolen from two more AT&T stores early this morning after three suspects entered the businesses, cleared out inventory and left within minutes, authorities said.
Greer Police responded to the first robbery on 215 W. Wade Hampton Bllvd. at 6:04 a.m. Video surveillance showed three men between 21 and 30 years old entering the store dressed in dark hooded sweatshirts and wearing black gloves, according to incident reports.
The suspects took an undetermined number of cell phones of different makes and models, along with phone accessories, one report said.
At 6:12 a.m., officers responded to a second AT&T robbery at 5322 Wade Hampton Blvd. Three male suspects used a crow bar to gain entry into the store and then into a locked room that held inventory, according to a report.
The gang has made off with $30,000+ worth of merchandise and they show no signs of stopping. They have been caught on video and don’t wear masks though so I doubt these are pros.
Fox Carolina has a link to surveillance video of the gang.
WYFF points out that the men seem to be extremely familiar with these stores layouts. They also have more detailed descriptions.
Police Find Stolen A.T.M. in Abandoned Pick-Up Truck
Bad enough that they’re thieves, but littering too? Throw the book at them!
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville police said that an automatic teller machine that was ripped from the ground at a bank in January was found in the back of a truck on Wednesday morning.
Police said that the truck was found parked in a wooded area off Verdae Boulevard just before noon.
Investigators said that the ATM appears to belong to a Wachovia Bank on Woodruff Road that was hit on Jan. 18.
How was this crime scene found you ask? Well according to WYFF it’s a funny story…
Brian Jenkins said he was taking a short when a deer darted in front of his car on Hilton Street.
Jenkins said, “It was a big deer. I hunt, so I stopped and said, ‘I’m going to see where this deer is.’”
Jenkins followed the deer about 80 yards into the woods.
“There were deer bones. It was crazy. Then I could see the back of a truck,” he said.
Jenkins said he hollered for his brother-in-the law and together they approached the truck.
Yeah. Sounds reasonable.