"Man kills 4, then self, S.C. police say" by Associated Press / July 4, 2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A man killed four people in South Carolina, then took his own life after leading a police chase back to the scene where three of the bodies were found, authorities said yesterday.
Kenneth Myers, 46, was driving the fourth victim’s car when deputies began chasing him early yesterday morning.
Officers fired several shots at Myers as he tried to ram their cruisers before the chase ended back at the home where deputies found three people dead about 6 p.m. Saturday. Myers then apparently shot himself, Aiken County Sheriff’s Captain Charles Barranco said....
Investigators are trying to piece together why Myers might have gone on the killing spree. Deputies weren’t immediately familiar with him before Saturday night.
“It’s hard to say at this point in the investigation why those people were killed,’’ Barranco said....
Some threats Myers made toward others have been uncovered, but investigators said the first people they talked to during the investigation did not think Myers would turn violent, Barranco said....
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