Public Safety

Two teenagers escaped injury in a shooting Sunday, but investigators are not sure where the shooting actually occurred. The sheriff’s office reported that deputies were called to Fries Bay and Wright roads around 5:23 p.m. to assist Horry County Police. The 19 and 16 year old male victims told an Horry County Police officer that a red Dodge Charger with “blacked out windows” began following them on Wright...

Deputies are searching for the suspect who wounded a Riegelwood man while he was feeding his cats Saturday. Sherman Lewis Brown, 72, of Weyman Road, told deputies he was working in his yard when he heard someone shooting near his home around 11:30 a.m. When he bent over to fill a cat food dish, the report said, Brown “felt a very quick and sharp pain and then noticed...

A man is recovering after he was shot through the leg near Tabor City Friday. Deputies were called to 15 Ying Lane around 3:30 a.m. to a disturbance, sheriff’s reports said. While they were en route, the call was changed to a shooting. Deputies arrived to find Nigel Davon Mason, 22, on the ground with a gunshot wound to the leg. No one on the scene could describe...