"The worst thing that goes on around here is that someone runs a stop sign and it gets posted on Facebook." "Surprised is probably an understatement," Goin said of the shooting in the neighborhood where he has lived for 20 years. “It was like, and I don't mean to put it like this because I'm a Vietnam veteran, but it was like combat."īobby Goin stood outside Wednesday, waiting for police to let him back into his home where his wife and granddaughter heard gunshots from the home farther back in the neighborhood. "During that time, I could hear rapid gunfire, a lot of gunfire,” neighbor Jack Cochrane said. One neighbor told Channel 9 he was trying to get home Wednesday when it all started. Property records show several houses valued at more than $400,000.
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Neighbors said the community is full of brick homes and well-kept yards. Wednesday when the suspect began shooting, wounding three deputies.Īuthorities said the shootings happened in Vintage Place, an upscale neighborhood west of the city.
Maj. Mike Nunn, with the Florence County Sheriff's Department, said officers were serving a warrant around 4 p.m. Lott said he also ended up in the hospital after the shooting but should be released Friday. Authorities didn't immediately release details about the crime.
Seth Hopkins was charged Friday with second-degree criminal sexual conduct. One son is an officer in Orangeburg County and another was a deputy in Lexington County, but left the department earlier this year.
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Officials said Hopkins lost his law license in the 1980s over $18,000 in wrongfully collected attorney fees.Ĭourt documents show that in 1984 he was allowed to pay back the debt and surrender his license rather than serve a six-month jail term.Īccording to Facebook posts from Hopkins, he started shooting competitively around the same time he was disbarred.Ĭourt records also show he was injured in Vietnam and received disability payments.Īccording to The State Newspaper, Hopkins also had two son involved in law enforcement. Associated Press writers Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.Florence County investigators called Hopkins' home and arranged to speak to his 27-year-old adopted son, Seth Hopkins, about a sex assault investigation Wednesday afternoon, Lott said, adding that they had a search warrant.Īccording to officials, the gunman is hospitalized with a head injury after falling at the scene and is unable to speak with officers. His name is Alec Iurato, not Alex Iarato. The story was previously updated to correct the spelling of the name of the wounded officer. 14, 2022, to correct the last time a police officer was fatally shot while on duty in Connecticut. A medical examiner said he died of a heart problem, but his name was added to a national memorial for fallen police officers after his family argued that his health problem was related to his healed gunshot wound. The last Connecticut law enforcement officer shot to death while on duty was Newington Officer Peter Lavery, who was killed while responding to a domestic violence call in 2004.Īdditionally, New Haven Officer Robert Fumiatti died in 2007, five years after being shot during a drug investigation. And in North Carolina on Thursday evening, a police officer was among five people killed in a shooting in a residential area. Two of those officers, one in Greenville and one Las Vegas, were killed. It followed shootings of police officers this week in Greenville, Mississippi Decatur, Illinois Philadelphia, Las Vegas and central Florida. The governor called the shooting “a senseless tragedy,” ordering flags to be lowered to half-staff in the officers’ honor. Iurato was released from a hospital Thursday morning.īristol, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of the state capital of Hartford, is home to about 60,000 people and to the sports network ESPN. Iurato, 26, joined the Bristol department in 2018 and has a bachelor’s degree in government, law and national security, the chief said. Scores of officers lined a street and followed a vehicle carrying Hamzy’s body from the shooting scene late Thursday morning. “The outpouring of love, support and prayers from so many is deeply appreciated,” Hamzy’s family said in a statement. Like Demonte, Hamzy was an advisor to a police cadet program. Hamzy, 34, had gotten many letters of commendation during his eight years on his hometown police force, the chief said.
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