SC: Fatal Shooting at Kershaw was Self Defense

KERSHAW — Investigators suspect a fatal shooting on Valentine’s Day at a home in Kershaw County’s Ridgeway area was done in self-defense.

Darius Israel Chester, 27, of Elgin, told deputies was sitting in his car outside his girlfriend’s house on Shivers Green Road when he was approached by her ex-boyfriend carrying what appeared to be a 2-foot-long “black piece of metal resembling a baton with a red handle,” according to the incident report.

The ex-boyfriend, 22-year-old Alexander Chivers Johnson, of Elgin, had been sending threats to the woman, the report said. As he approached Chester, he spit and kicked the car, Chester told deputies, according to the report. Chester then shot Johnson, the report said.

 

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