Sheriff: Gunfire by South Carolina Facility Not Linked to North Carolina Shooting
RIDGEWAY, S.C.—Law enforcement officials say they have found no evidence linking gunshots near a Duke Energy facility in South Carolina to earlier gunfire at North Carolina electric substations that cost thousands of customers their power, though multiple state and federal agencies continue to investigate.
Kevin Wheeler, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Columbia, South Carolina, said that while “no stone is left unturned,” there is no information connecting Wednesday’s incident in South Carolina to Dec. 3’s in North Carolina.
A firearm was discharged from a speeding vehicle Wednesday evening on the opposite side of a road located about half a mile away from a Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway, South Carolina, Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan said in a Thursday afternoon post on the office’s Facebook page….