A South Carolina gas station owner was charged Monday with murder in the death of a 14-year-old boy whom he allegedly chased from the store and shot in the back, the sheriff said.
Rick Chow thought the teen had shoplifted four bottles of water Sunday night from his Xpress Mart Shell station in Columbia. But Cyrus Carmack-Belton put the bottles back in the cooler and was off the store's property running away when he killed, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
Self-defence law in South Carolina requires the shooter doesn't instigate the incident, believes he is in imminent danger and has no way to avoid that danger. There was no sign that Carmack-Belton was fighting with Chow before he ran out of the store and there was no injury to his body other than an abrasion from falling and the gunshot wound, Richland County Coroner Nadia Rutherford said.
"I was at the autopsy I looked at his body inside and outside. He had one shot to the back which is why Mr. Chow is being charged with murder," the coroner told the crowd. The entire gas station was behind yellow crime scene tape Tuesday morning. Dozens of crushed water bottles littered the parking lot. Graffiti, most of it "Cyrus" or "14" covered the walls.
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