SOUTH CONGAREE — The daughter of the highest deputy solicitor in Richland County was arrested on tried homicide expenses over a Lexington County capturing on Thanksgiving.
Police within the small city of South Congaree mentioned round lunchtime on Thanksgiving day that six photographs had been fired from a automobile at a house off Ramblin Street. A few of the bullets had been lodged in partitions of the houses.
“No one was injured, however there have been round six occupants contained in the residence,” South Congaree Police Chief Josh Shumpert mentioned, including {that a} mom was house together with her teenage kids.
The capturing within the city of two,400 simply southwest of Cayce stemmed from an undisclosed argument over the cellphone, Shumpert mentioned.
Police have charged Lela Sampson and Jakqui Stewart, a pair of 18-year-olds, with tried homicide, discharging a firearm right into a dwelling, legal conspiracy and 6 counts of first diploma assault and battery.
Sampson is the daughter of Fifth Judicial Circuit Courtroom Deputy Solicitor April Sampson, who joined the solicitor’s workplace in 2011 and have become circuit deputy solicitor in 2019.
Lela Sampson was arrested at her Columbia house on Dec. 13 and booked within the Lexington County Detention Middle. The police chief mentioned Lela Sampson and her mother and father had been “cooperative with legislation enforcement.”
April Sampson declined to touch upon her daughter’s arrest.
Lela Sampson’s lawyer Stanley Myers mentioned they’re nonetheless studying in regards to the proof collected within the case, and added that Lela continues to be presumed harmless.
“We’ll comb by way of the proof,” Myers mentioned. ”We’ll defend her to the most effective of our means.”
Sampson was granted an $80,000 bond and has since been launched from jail, based on Lexington County Bond Courtroom. Stewart, who was arrested on Dec. 12 and lives in Irmo, continues to be detained.
The State Legislation Enforcement Division has been known as into help with the case.
