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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.