17-Year-Old Charged with Attempted Murder After Striking Juvenile and Crashing into Dollar Tree in Bishopville
May 11, 2025 Dollar Tree, 618 Sumter Highway, Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina
Facts: On May 11, 2025, at around 2:00 p.m., a fight in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree in Bishopville escalated when a 17-year-old juvenile got into a car and intentionally struck another juvenile, causing non-life-threatening injuries.
The vehicle then rolled away, crashing into another occupied vehicle in the parking lot and causing structural damage to the Dollar Tree storefront, leading to a temporary closure.
Lee County Sheriff Daniel Simon reported that the incident involved two adults and three juveniles, with deputies responding to reports of the parking lot altercation.
The 17-year-old suspect, charged as an adult under a 2016 South Carolina law, faces charges of attempted murder, disorderly conduct, malicious injury to property totaling $10,000 or more, and malicious injury to property totaling $2,000 or less.
The suspect is being held at the Sumter-Lee Detention Center pending a bond hearing.
Two adults, Celvin Hickman, 19, and Shamirah Blyther, 24, both from Bishopville, were charged with disorderly conduct, and Hickman also faces a charge of malicious injury to property.
Two other juveniles involved were charged with disorderly conduct and released to their legal guardians.
An SG reader is struggling with the idea that only a small percentage of the population are emotionally exosynaesthetic:
I’m struggling with the idea that only a small portion of the population has that capacity.
Why? Have you talked to any actual humans lately? It’s much more likely that you simply don’t understand what empathy actually is.
Note that these five examples below are not definitions that cover the entire meaning of the terms and set limits on their applications, they are just explanatory examples meant to help you understand the differences between the concepts.
Empathy: I know how you feel in your situation. Chrysopathy: I know how I would feel in your situation. Sympathy: I feel bad about your situation. Apathy: I have no feelings about your situation. Antipathy: I feel pleased about your situation. Now think about how few people even bother to know what someone else’s situation actually is, much less have basic sympathy for it. Chrysopathy is the best that most people can do; because women are solipsistic they have absolutely no empathetic ability whatsoever and it is a very good thing that they do not.
