Parents say Dallas suspect changed after his service Family says military life MORE ON RECENT caused man to be a hermit VIOLENCE BY NOMAAN MERCHANT Texas mom who was shot protecting The Associated Press her son says she would march again TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2016 75 CENTS A5 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 DALLAS — Military service Open-carry law poses challenge to law A5 changed the Dallas gunman from enforcement 2 SECTIONS, 18 PAGES | VOL. 121, NO. 225 an extrovert into a hermit, his par- ents said in an interview excerpt published Monday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lawyer who represented him, John- Micah Johnson’s mother, Del- Dallas Police Officer Rebecca Tristan, son was accused of sexually ha- OPINION phine Johnson, told TheBlaze web- left, is comforted by a supporter on rassing a female soldier while de- site in an interview that her son Sunday outside Dallas Police head- ployed. wanted to be a police officer as a quarters. His father, James Johnson, said child. His six years in the Army haltingly and through tears, “I Don’t forget that Reserve, including a tour in Af- thought the military represented, don’t know what to say to anybody ghanistan, were “not what Micah it just didn’t live up to his expecta- police officers’ thought it would be ... what he tions.” According to the military SEE SUSPECT, PAGE A7 lives matter, too A8 A morning in art camp TELEVISION State’s drought status worsens Corn harvest coming; Sumter now ‘incipient’ BY JIM HILLEY
[email protected] 200 years Areas in the Upstate are suffering from dry condi- tions and hot weather, lead- of history ing the South Carolina Drought Committee to up- From renovations to logistics grade four northwestern counties to “moderate and more, learn about the drought.” The committee A9 also upgraded much of the executive mansion state, including Clarendon and Sumter counties, to “in- cipient drought.” Counties in the northeast- ern part of the state includ- ing the Pee Dee and Ker- shaw and Lee counties re- Fingerprinting main listed as “normal” by the commission.