Bigger District’S 2Nd Ben Carson Reading Room Opens at Manchester Elementary by BRUCE MILLS [email protected]
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LOCAL: 3 men sought after Sumter pizza delivery driver’s car stolen A2 HEALTH Move more to improve your health A5 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Sumter native wanted in killing rest of two homicide suspects, one of inside a center for treatment. Her current status 2 men sought in case whom is a Sumter native, in the death green Chev- is unknown. of an Horry County man and the injury rolet S-10 After the shooting, the suspects were after Horry man shot; of another person. pickup seen leaving the scene in a gray 2005 Kia According to a news release issued on truck. The Sedona that has since been recovered, ATF offers $5K reward May 24, Tyshawn Brown, 25, formerly second vic- according to a post on Horry County of Sumter, and Heath Reaves Jr., 20, al- BROWN REAVES tim, Winter Police Department's Facebook page. BY ADRIENNE SARVIS legedly fired shots at two victims in the Parker, was Investigators think both Brown and [email protected] area of Spring and Church streets in found inside the home of a person who Reaves were armed and shot at the vic- Loris, Horry County, on April 24. provided shelter after the shooting inci- tims, according to the ATF release. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire- Horry County Police Department offi- dent, according to an incident report The release also warns Brown and arms and Explosives is offering up to cers responded to calls of shots fired to from the police department. $5,000 for information leading to the ar- find the deceased, Charles Durant Jr., Parker was transported to a medical SEE SUSPECTS, PAGE A3 Read more, dream bigger District’s 2nd Ben Carson Reading Room opens at Manchester Elementary BY BRUCE MILLS [email protected] INEWOOD — School ad- ministrators and donors hope a new, special li- PHOTOS BY BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM P From left, first-graders Donovan Talbott, Christopher Hardy and Kyler Kee read books in the brary at Manchester Elementary new Ben Carson Reading Room at Manchester Elementary School on Tuesday. School will help youth in this rural community of Sumter Manchester County think and dream big. Elementary School stu- On Tuesday, local leaders and dents enter school officials held a grand opening the school’s celebration for the school’s new Ben new Ben Car- Carson Reading Room. son Reading The library is named after the re- Room on nowned neurosurgeon who came Tuesday. from humble beginnings, but through the power of reading books he grew to learn and achieve in school, according Books in the room are not to Sumter School District Assistant organized in any special Superintendent Brenda Hafner. way, and the mission is for “All of a sudden, he realized it did elementary school students to develop a joy for reading. SEE READING, PAGE A3 Former Lincoln High School classmates celebrate 65th reunion BY KAYLA ROBINS coln was the first and only pub- [email protected] lic school for black children in Sumter County. In addition to Friends and classmates it being an elementary and ju- often get together for a nior high school, it was also sleepover and to reminisce, eventually a feeder school for but one group of former high the rest of the elementary school peers who did so on schools for black students. Tuesday have grandchildren Toney said she remembers who were their age when they PHOTOS BY KAYLA ROBINS / THE SUMTER ITEM clearly walking from school to met. A copy of the high school’s paper, The Echo, sits on the First Baptist Church at the The Class of 1953 celebrated table in front of old photos of students at the dinner corner of Washington and its 65th anniversary of gradu- on Tuesday. Dingle streets for graduation ating from Lincoln High because her class was too big School with a meet and greet James L. Felder, a ’57 graduate of Lincoln High School for Lincoln’s auditorium. at the Hyatt Hotel in down- and member of the school’s preservation alumni asso- “I am blessed to have start- town, a dinner banquet at ciation, addresses guests at the 65th anniversary re- ed in first grade. From first their old school on Council union of the Class of 1953. through 12th grade at Lincoln, Street and a night’s stay at the then I went just to Columbia newly opened hotel. mischievous boys,” said Doro- wanted to do something spe- The banquet welcomed for five years of schooling and “Being in high school, we thy Randolph Toney. cial this year in honor of their some back for the first time returned and retired from Tu- were always a very unique The group gets together 65th reunion. since leaving. One couple omey Hospital after 38-and-a- class. We were smart, but we every year at Christmas and “And I thought, I hope that came from as far as Tampa, half years of nursing,” she were witty. And the guys in every two years at another new hotel is open by then. Florida. our class, they were typical time, but Toney said they Let’s do a sleepover,” she said. When it opened in 1874, Lin- SEE LINCOLN, PAGE A3 VISIT US ONLINE AT CONTACT US DEATHS, B3 WEATHER, A8 INSIDE Information: 774-1200 James A. Reynolds STORMY TODAY 2 SECTIONS, 14 PAGES the .com Advertising: 774-1246 Rovena Ernestine Witherspoon Bennett VOL. 123, NO. 159 Showers and storms Classifieds: 774-1200 Derrick Sweetenburg today; mostly cloudy Classifieds B6 Sports B1 Delivery: 774-1258 Rogers Michael Mungin and humid tonight Comics B4 Television B5 News and Sports: 774-1226 Susan E. Green HIGH 86, LOW 73 Opinion A7 A2 | THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] Shaw: ARCENT general died of Car stolen during pizza delivery, natural causes 3 black male suspects sought FROM STAFF REPORTS BY ADRIENNE SARVIS tim he would kill her if she looked at An investigation into the [email protected] him before firing a shot. death Sunday of a Shaw Air The victim attempted to flee but Force Base Army general de- Sumter County Sheriff's Office is was stopped by a second suspect who termined he died of natural seeking information about three pulled her from the white 2013 Ford causes while running around male suspects who allegedly stole a Focus and took the keys. Lake Murray near Lexington, pizza delivery vehicle and threatened She managed to break free from according to a news release to kill the driver during a delivery in the second man, who tried to knock from Shaw. Dalzell on Tuesday afternoon. her to the ground, and ran from the Maj. Gen. Jef- The delivery driver took the pizza area. frey L. Bannister, order to a residence in the 5900 block The three suspects fled the area in 57, was working of Acton Road about 4 p.m. and was the opposite direction in the Ford for U.S. Army allegedly attacked when she re- Focus, valued at $13,000, with S.C. li- Central at Shaw turned to the vehicle after no one an- A 2013 Ford Focus such as the one pictured cense plate PFR 162, according to the as a special proj- swered the door. was allegedly stolen Tuesday afternoon report. ects officer for the According to an incident report, from a pizza delivery driver. The S.C. li- Anyone with information about BANNISTER Chief of Staff of the three suspects, described as cense plate on the stolen car is PFR 162. this incident should call investigator the Army and black males, approached the victim Randy Stewart at (803) 436-2040 or was on transition leave before from the rear of the house and one "possibly a rifle." Crime Stoppers at (803) 436-2718 or his retirement in June. of the men presented a large gun, The man with the gun told the vic- 1-888-CRIMESC. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Maj. Gen. Bannister's family. Our top priority is en- suring the family has all the local support and resources they need during this emotion- Sumter artist receives award at Piccolo Spoleto ally difficult time," said Lt. Gen. Michael Garrett, the command- Charleston mayor John Tecklen- ing general for U.S. Army Cen- burg presented Sumter artist Car- tral, in the release. ole Carberry an honorable mention Bannister was survived by award for her works exhibited in his wife, Trese, and their Marion Square during Piccolo Spo- daughter, Lindsey. His home of leto. Carberry, who works primarily record was Rome, Georgia. The in watercolor, has been juried into general's final resting place will the Outdoor Artists Exhibit for 21 be at Arlington National Ceme- years. The exhibit is now in its 40th tery, and funeral details will be year. Carberry is a longtime mem- announced once finalized. ber and past president of the Sum- ter Artists Guild and has been for several years, as she says on her website, "mostly about swans and other long-necked birds. “ She and Grinchy law her paintings can be found in booth space 32 in the square. The denies prize exhibition runs through June 9. to Christmas PHOTO PROVIDED glitch winners COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina lottery officials say state law is the Grinch that won't allow them to pay $35 million in prizes won by play- ers when a Christmas Day glitch in a game briefly made everyone a winner. The South Carolina Educa- tion Lottery Commission voted Wednesday to reimburse play- ers only the $1 paid for Holiday Lexington father accused of killing Cash Add-A-Play tickets in- stead of the up to $500 they ap- peared to have won when ma- chines started printing winner 5 children to use insanity defense after winner for two hours on Dec.