The person police are looking for who shot and killed a South Carolina police officer died Friday morning after being shot again.
Around 11 p.m. Thursday, the officer from the McBee Police Department was shot while stopping a car on 11th Street near McBee High School in Chesterfield County.
A police officer in McBee tried to pull over a white truck that was going too fast. The suspect fired more than 60 shots at the officer before running away, according to ABC station WPDE. It’s not clear how many of those shots hit the police officer, but there are a lot of holes in the police car.
Sheriff Cambo Streater of Chesterfield County said, “We heard this officer over here in McBee call for help saying he had been shot.”
Streater said that his officers were close, arrived quickly, and helped figure out that the suspect was Alston Modlin, who is 27 years old.
“Every day, people are stopped.” You either pay the fine or go to court. “You don’t pull out guns and try to kill the police officer,” Streater said.
The cop was taken to a nearby hospital for care and is now back with his family. Tina Terry of Channel 9 was able to talk to the officer’s sister, who said his name was Jerriell Wright. Terry was told that her brother had been shot right across the street from her house. Her brother lived just around the corner from the area.
He helped her brother get out of the police car, and she said it was only by God’s kindness that he lived.
One of the groups that went to Lee County to look for the suspect was the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Around 10 a.m. on Friday, police said Modlin had been found in a Lee County field. Police said that’s when they heard more gunshots, and the Lee County Coroner’s Office confirmed that Modlin had died.
Police in Horry County did not say who shot in the field.
At about 11:30 a.m. Friday, Chopper 9 Skyzoom was seen on Una Road in Lee County. A burned-out car and a number of police cars were at the scene. Channel 9 is trying to figure out what that car has to do with it.
As asked by SLED, the Horry County Police Department is in charge of the probe. The group is working with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources because all three are involved.
Lee County police told people who lived nearby that they would be in the area for a while while they looked into what happened. The people who live there are glad Officer Wright lived.
One friend said, “I’m glad he lived to see another day.”
Todd found out that Modlin could weld. A company representative said that his shift finished at 11 p.m. on Thursday. She said that he had a clean record and had never been in trouble with the law before he was hired.