Trial in Bordeaux Death Continues
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IN SPORTS: P-15’s look for sweep against Murrells Inlet in 2nd round series B1 NATION Does police use of robot to bomb Dallas sniper open door for others? A3 FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2016 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Trial in Bordeaux death continues ued Thursday in Clarendon County. According to reports, Morris, 40, Man charged in 2014 Chad Morris, of 2661 Tindal Road, was driving a boat on Lake Marion was charged with reckless homicide during the early morning hours of boating crash that by operation of a boat and failure to July 4, 2014, when his craft struck an render aid for his part in the July 4, idling boat with four passengers. 2014, death of Hailey Joanne Bor- Bordeaux, one of the passengers, killed Sumter woman deaux, 21. Morris was arrested in was critically injured in the crash and 2014 after a six-week investigation transported to a local hospital, where BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY by South Carolina Department of she was pronounced dead later that [email protected] Natural Resources. morning. Morris' attorney, Shaun Kent of One of the witnesses who gave his KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY / THE SUMTER ITEM The trial for a Sumter man involved Kent Law Firm LLC, presented several testimony Thursday was Franklin Chad Morris, left, 40, confers at his trial in a boating incident that resulted in witnesses Thursday that had been on with his attorney, Shaun Kent, on Thursday. the death of a Sumter woman contin- the scene the night of the crash. SEE TRIAL, PAGE A6 Road honors Sumter’s Tuskegee Airmen Shaw renames new entrance to honor pilots BY JIM HILLEY [email protected] A road on Shaw Air Force Base was named for two Sum- ter natives who flew with the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II at a ceremony on the base Thursday morn- ing. The road, now officially “Ashley-Bowman Boulevard,” begins at the Sumter Gate on U.S. 378 and St. Paul’s Church Road and continues on the base to Dryden Way. The road was named in memory of Lt. Col. Willie Lee Ashley and 1st Sgt. Leroy Bowman, who both grew up in Sumter and later flew in World War II. A memorial for the Tuskeg- ee Airmen, including a static display of a fighter aircraft, will be erected on the City of Sumter’s Shaw Park, located nearby during a future up- grade to the park now in the planning stages. The Tuskegee Airmen were military airmen who were in- volved in the so-called “Tuskegee Experience,” an Army Air Corps program to train black Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft. The Tuskegee Airmen includ- JIM HILLEY / THE SUMTER ITEM ed pilots, navigators, bombar- Retired Lt. Gen. George Bowman, left, son of Tuskegee Airman Leroy Bowman, and Shaw Air Force Base Commander Col. Stephen Jost, center, diers, maintenance and sup- unveils a display about Leroy Bowman and Willie Ashley, two Tuskegee Airmen who are being honored at a street naming ceremony on Shaw port staff, instructors and all Air Force Base on Thursday, as other dignitaries and family members, including Leroy Bowman’s brother the Rev. Ralph Cantey, right, look on. the personnel who kept the planes in the air, according to since the Civil Rights Era in Item, provided a brief history to better the lives of the peo- of the Tuskegee Institute www.tuskegeeairmen.org the mid-1960s, the airmen of the two airmen, saying ple around them,” he said. and the first to fly solo, to The Tuskegee Airmen, also have been widely celebrated both were dedicated to their Ashley graduated from receive his flying wings and known as the “Red Tails” for in books, television programs, communities and both pur- Morris College High School to earn his second lieuten- the paint scheme to their air- films and museum exhibits. sued an education and real- and attended the Hampton ant bars, according to mate- planes, were relatively un- During the ceremony, ized their dreams, in addition Institute in Virginia where rial provided by Shaw Air known during the period im- Sammy Way, curator of the to being part of a historic mil- he learned how to fly with Force Base. mediately after World War II, Sumter Military Museum and itary tradition. the Civil Air Patrol. He was Ashley served for 14 months according to the website, but a columnist for The Sumter “They used their education a member of the first class SEE AIRMEN, PAGE A6 Home damaged in Wednesday evening fire BY ADRIENNE SARVIS Base stations responded at gan said the firefighters were [email protected] 7:35 p.m. rotated as they worked to put According to the incident out the fire because of the Sumter County firefight- report provided by Sumter heat. ers responded to a residen- Fire Department, the fire It appears the fire started tial fire on Wednesday eve- started in the garage of the near a golf cart that was con- ning when a garage caught residence and spread to the nected to a battery to charge fire at a single-family house attic. but the cause of the blaze is in the 300 block of Trail- Sumter Fire Department undetermined at this time, he wood Drive. Battalion Chief Joey Duggan said. Nothing looks suspi- The call about the fire said the garage and attic were cious, he added. came in shortly after 7:20 heavily involved when fire- Duggan said one person p.m. and about 40 firefighters fighters arrived. was inside the house when from the Stadium Road, Alice Firefighters had the flames she heard a loud pop, like an PHOTO PROVIDED Drive, Wedgefield, Cher- under control about 8:10 p.m., Sumter County firefighters finish extinguishing a blaze in the garage ryvale and Shaw Air Force according to the report. Dug- SEE FIRE, PAGE A6 and attic of a Trailwood Drive home on Wednesday. VISIT US ONLINE AT DEATHS, B6 WEATHER, A10 INSIDE Robbie Jane N. McIntyre Daniel Elmore MORE OF THE SAME 2 SECTIONS, 20 PAGES the .com Donnie O’Neil Fulton Tisha Latoya Wilson Another hot day with good VOL. 121, NO. 228 Julia H. Johnson William McCray chance of afternoon storms; Classifieds B7 Linda Thurston Ernest Powell Jr. tonight, shower or storm in Comics A8 William M. DeLorme William D. Peterson III spots; warm and humid. Thomas J. Washington Opinion A9 HIGH 95, LOW 74 Television A7 A2 | FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2016 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] STATE BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Area shows strong housing market Inmate who walked from job site recaptured BY JIM HILLEY this time last year. reached $189,500, also the highest since [email protected] Sales in Sumter and Clarendon coun- at least 2005. PICKENS — An inmate who ties for the month of June were up 41.1 Average sales price in June was walked off a job site in Pickens The real estate market in South Caro- percent compared to a year ago. Sales in $243,354, a new high, up from $228,528 in County earlier this week has lina appears strong, according to num- June jumped from 129 in 2015 to 182 in June 2015. been recaptured. bers for June released by South Carolina 2016, and from 344 in the most recent Percent of list price received has Chief Deputy Creed Hashe Realtors, and the Sumter-Clarendon quarter of 2015 to 426 for the most recent topped the 97 percent mark for the first said in a statement that market is leading the state in several cat- quarter of 2016. In terms of percentage, time since 2007, according to South Caro- 25-year-old Casey William Gil- egories. the local market led the state in both cat- lina Realtor figures. That number has lespie escaped Monday while Statewide, sales were up 7.4 percent egories. been on a steady rise since 2011, when it cutting grass at a recycling compared to 2015, even as the median Median price has also shown a healthy bottomed out at less than 94 percent. center in the town of Six Mile, prices increased by 4.8 percent. Sellers increase in Sumter and Clarendon coun- Inventory of homes for sale in the about 30 miles west of Green- are moving their homes more quickly as ties, with the median price in June 2016 state is down 6.3 percent from June 2015, ville. Gillespie was captured average days on the market fell from 113 14.6 percent higher than in 2015, an in- a drop of nearly 2,500 homes on the mar- Thursday morning when dep- to 104 for the year and from 106 to 96 in crease of $19,000. ket. uties stopped a car they had June 2016 compared to June 2015. Average days on the market in Sumter On the downside, South Carolina Real- under surveillance. Gillespie Local figures for Sumter and Claren- and Clarendon counties decreased by 30 tors reported the housing affordability was found in the car operated don counties are particularly robust, days from 199 in June 2015 to 169 in June index has dropped to 133, meaning the by a woman from Six Mile. and the local market led the state in the 2016. median household income is 133 percent Gillespie was serving a 90- percentage increase in year-to-date sales, Statewide, 8,201 sales were closed in of what is necessary to qualify for the day sentence for a driving up 17.4 percent from June 2015 with 727 June, the highest number in at least the median prices home under prevailing in- under the influence, having sales so far this year compared to 619 at past decade, as the median sales price terest rates.