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HONEY HILL â" Doris Montgomery said she shot and killed her husband Tuesday night as he attacked her 47-year-old disabled son. A day later, she reflected on the horrific fight in the front yard of their rural Berkeley County home and wondered if she had done the right thing. "If I had it to do over, I would have just jumped on him and he would have had to beat me," the 67-year-old homemaker said. "I loved him. I don't care what he had done. I loved him, and I know he loved me." | |||||
| Deadly, grisly rabies still threat in Lowcountry Earlier this month a red fox appeared from the shadows of a gated Dunes West neighborhood and reminded a community of an ancient disease that still lurks. Rabies can transform a typically wary wild animal into a creature hellbent on spreading disease. The virus ravages the nervous system and destroys the brain. Holiday crime alertOfficers in North Charleston got a jump on the holiday season by fanning out to businesses with a wish list. No, the city's finest weren't asking for gifts to put under the Christmas tree. This was a modest list full of selfless demands aimed at keeping merchants safe. Police were asking stores to make sure surveillance cameras work; to use adequate lighting inside and outside; and to clear windows of advertisements and other clutter, to better see people approaching at night. Jail inmate accused of second slayingA man sitting in the county jail on a murder charge for more than a year has been accused of a second killing from 2007, Charleston police said. Man, 24, dies after being shotSummerville â" A 24-year-old man who was shot outside his home Wednesday afternoon in the Gahagan community later died in an ambulance. | ||||
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