Teacher hit by car in Columbia County dies
A female pedestrian was fatally hit by a car in Columbia County late Wednesday, authorities said.
Columbia County Coroner Vernon Collins said 24-year-old Christian Giles, of Sawbuck Way, Evans, was pronounced dead at Medical College of Georgia Hospital.
The incident reportedly occurred about 9 p.m. at the intersection of Mullikin Road and Hunters Cove near Furys Ferry Road.
Mr. Collins said Mrs. Giles was a teacher at John Milledge Elementary School. He said she was walking down Mullikin Road with her husband and two dogs when she was struck by the vehicle.
An autopsy is set for this morning at the Augusta GBI crime lab.
Mr. Collins said he had been told the motorist was being held by police, but that no other information was available.
Woman is sought for cashing forged check
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is trying to find a woman who cashed a forged check at a North Augusta bank and used the victim's ATM card to purchase a car wash, according to a news release.
The checks and ATM card were stolen on April 30 from J.D. Lever Elementary School in Aiken, where the victim is a teacher.
The same day, surveillance photographs show a woman, who identified herself as 34-year-old Stacy Wheeler of Augusta, cashing the check for $480 at First Citizens Bank.
She purchased a car wash a short time later at Shine Pro Car Wash.
The woman is described as black, 34 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds.
Anyone with information on this person is asked to call the Aiken County Sheriff's Office: (800) 922-970, or Crimestoppers of the Midlands: (888) CRIME-SC.
Man sought in holdup of Blackville bank
Blackville, S.C., authorities were searching Wednesday for a man who robbed the town's branch of the Enterprise bank.
The robber was described as a light-skinned black male wearing a blue hooded sweat shirt, a white baseball cap, red pants and a "Jason"-type face mask. He weighed about 170 pounds and was about 5 feet 7 inches tall, witnesses said.
Man robs workers at N. Augusta restaurant
A masked man robbed a North Augusta restaurant at gunpoint as employees were leaving early Wednesday.
According to Department of Public Safety reports, two workers had closed the Ruby Tuesday on Knox Avenue just before 1 a.m. when a man emerged from the bushes and demanded they take him to the restaurant's money.
The man forced them to fill a bag with more than $2,000 before closing them in a walk-in cooler, the police report stated.
The victims described the robber as a black man, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, weighing between 180 to 200 pounds.
SUV malfunction was cause of fire
A fire that damaged several vehicles at University Hospital earlier this week was caused by a malfunction inside a Ford Expedition's engine, Augusta Fire Battalion Chief James Freeman said Wednesday.
Chief Freeman said firefighters responded Tuesday to an employee parking lot at the medical facility at 1350 Walton Way, where nine vehicles were damaged.
Steve Crawford, a University Hospital spokesman, said on Wednesday that no injuries were reported and four of the cars were towed from the parking lot.
Chief Freeman said there was no structural damage to the lot.
Bond reduced for woman charged in relative's death
Bond was reduced Wednesday for a woman accused of killing a disabled relative who was found living in squalor.
Richmond County Superior Court Judge J. Carlisle Overstreet reduced bond from $40,000 to $20,000 for Jeanne Peterson after the prosecuting attorney couldn't say definitively when he would be prepared to bring the case to trial.
Her husband, Buel "Chuck" Peterson, who is also accused of murder in the case, already has been released on bond.
Police found 30-year-old Christina Baxter in the front yard of the Petersons' Karian Drive home in October.
The 46-pound woman, who was deaf, mute and physically unable to walk or feed herself, was dead.
Authorities said Ms. Baxter was so badly malnourished that her body was like that of a child with a thin layer of skin covering bone.
Inside the home, feces was found covering the walls; the floors were covered with newspapers; and a 200-pound pig roamed about.
-- From staff reports
Comments
What in the heck is wrong with that judge. That poor woman died suffering and the worst part is she couldn't do anything to help herself. You should be ashamed of yourself Judge Overstreet! I'm not sure what the max time they can stay in jail without formal charges brought up or if formal charges have been brought up on them but to help them be set free by lowering bond is ridiculous!
old judge overstreet,stricks again
HERE WE GO AGAIN--THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT!!!!
These two did not deserve to be let out of jail-but then think about it, they are getting three good meals a day and any snacks they might want, costing us money. It is better in 401 than in the outside world to a certain extent. What they did to the poor woman we cannot imagine, God Rest Her Soul. I'm sure God is taking care of her now.
Judge Overstreet, Please do not let these two slip through the cracks and not get what they deserve.
Overstreet to refer to you as a Judge is ludicrous....:-(
The crime was unthinkable and the punishment should be to the full extent of the law. However, IMO the man was allowed to bond out to stop the taxpayers having to pay his medical expenses and his wife most probably to care for him. Having said that, what is going to happen if they are convicted?
Overstreet is completely worthless as a judge. I know that's a shocker.
"...prosecuting attorney couldn't say definitively when he would be prepared to bring the case to trial. " It's clear where the blame lies in this legal breakdown. Keep up the good work Judge Overstreet.
The Peterson couple will likely be found incompetent and not culpable and will then be declared wards of the state.
This judge should not even be on the bench! These people let this woman die point blank. I have been in front this judge with a person who threaten to kill me and the guy has an anger issues, he was sentenced to anger management and still walking streets, after they had recordings of him threatening me and confession of pulling a knife on me......there is no justice system anymore.
So a black man robs a bank in Blackville. I tell ya, this black on black crime is getting out of hand.
Be prepared to see more and more crime such as robberies now that your wonderful president has run this country into a hole it may never climb out of.
Good point Little Lamb, if they're found guilty of negligent homicide they'll also become wards of the state. It's a lose/lose situation for the state.
Is that the best you can come up with scum?
There was nothing negligent about it. You would have more of an outcry if it was Fluffy.
A black woman is writing bad checks, a black man robbed a bank in Blackville, and a black man robs Ruby Tuesday's. Seems like someone's trying to make black people culpable for crime. Just another example of.....
A very strange report on the Mrs.Giles killing. Was she walking on the road? Why is the driver that killed her being held incognito? There's a lot information about streets and neighboring streets, but almost none about the assailant or the crime. Very strange.
Strange report? Typically when names are withheld it means they are under 18, which is present in this case. Best wishes to the families of the parties involved.
You can't say blacks are committing crimes, that's racist, how dare you identify the skin color of the criminals...
You know what I find ironic. Blacks in history fought so hard for their freedom, yet so many now are fighting so hard to lose their freedom by going to jail. Something defintely wrong with this picture, wouldn't you say?
How's that firefighterhamer?
Yeah but AL Sharpton can call the caucasians "Whites" on Fox News Network, while the "Whites" have to call blacks, "african americans" to be politically correct. I really don't care about the color of your skin, but if you are going to hold one race accountable for one thing, then it should go both ways...
equalityforall, shame on you for your 9:41 post. It wasn't politically correct at all.
What better justice for the man? She will be released to care for him as he is disabled as well. How long until he is found in the yard wasting away?
PT you are nuts...It was an accident.... My gosh why do you have to make something out of it. She was walking her dogs with her husband.... As she does every nite. My heart aches for her husband and her family....
The pig was 200 pounds but the woman was 46 pounds???? The womans relative and her husband never need to see the light of day, hear or eat while in a room full of feces. So they can witness first hand how Christina died.
Maybe Judge Overstreet will have these 2 people taking care of him someday. They can bring their pig over to his nice house...Way to go "judge"
wag. Hold on..We don't know yet if was an accident. An autopsy is to be performed and the driver of the car is being held.
wag still seems to stand for "wild [filtered word] guess".
What was it if it was not an accident????? Murder what?????
Does not matter a young woman is dead....
And PT you are still a nut. You try to act so damn smart and do not know anything....People like you scare me!!!
Scum go thing the Sheriff will not let you work the road and only work around 1st graders. RIGHT?
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