An Upstate man has been arrested more than two weeks after he beat his girlfriend with a liquor bottle and set her on fire, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office. Larry Dean Brown, Jr., 28, of Spartanburg is charged with domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and arson, warrants showed.Lt. Kevin Bobo said the investigation began Dec. 16 when the brother of the woman called deputies and told them about the attack, which happened on Dec. 6.The brother told investigators that Brown beat the woman with a liquor bottle, then poured gasoline on her and set her on fire, Bobo said.The woman was able to put the fire out by jumping into a bathtub and then drove herself to the hospital, according to Bobo. The attack happened in the master bedroom of the home the two shared, warrants showed.Because of the severity of her injuries, the woman wasn’t able to give emergency room personnel any specific details about the attack as they treated her and then transferred
A Spartanburg man faces multiple charges after a standoff with the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office Friday night in which a deputy was shot at but not injured.
Brian Leigh Whitworth, 48, of 997 Bethesda Road, was charged with attempted murder, resisting arrest no assault, trespass after warning, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
The incident occurred shortly after a deputy responded at 7:14 p.m. Friday to 180 Wheeler Road for a trespassing call. A witness told the deputy that Whitworth had been living in the woods nearby for a while and had been seen walking up and down the road with a handgun.
John Gossett grew up in a small farmhouse on Shiloh Church Road bordering the Camp Croft World War II training site, where his dad was an engineer and mom was a post command driver.
At 83, the retired Army colonel still recalls vividly as a child watching from his bedroom window where many of the estimated 250,000 soldiers who trained there during World War II used live artillery fire. That hill there and all the way back to Pauline was maneuver areas, where troops moved and ran tactics, he said, pointing past the fence line that contains his cattle. Course, we haven t had any worry about it. Soon as the war was over, we went right back (to) farming.
Spartanburg’s police officers could receive a long-awaited gift from the city just in time for the holidays.
When the city council meets Monday night for the last time in 2020, they will vote on a budget allocation that, if approved, would give police officers a pay raise.
The wage increase would put Spartanburg’s police department more in line with other agencies within the county and neighboring counties in terms of pay, according to agenda documents.
But police officers aren’t the only city employees that could see a pay boost as the calendar flips over into 2021. City staff is recommending that a one-time supplemental compensation disbursement be provided to 270 other full-time employees.
A Spartanburg man has died from injuries received during a shooting in October.
Timothy Keith Thompson, 37, of Walden Circle, died at 6:50 p.m., Friday at Spartanburg Medical Center, according to a statement from the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office.
The Coroner s Office said the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office is investigating the shooting as a homicide.
A forensic examination is scheduled for Saturday.
Thompson is the second person to die from injuries involving the shooting on Oct. 25 at the home on Walden Circle.
When the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office responded to the scene in October, the Herald-Journal reported deputies found two people injured and one was pronounced dead.