Early in the afternoon on May 1, a group of Sullivan’s Island schoolchildren and teachers suffered non-fatal injures following a crashed stolen car that ended with a police manhunt for a fugitive on the run. Officers from Isle of Palms and Sullivan’s Island police departments, alongside the help of other local, state and federal personnel, arrested suspect Justin Collin Adams of Greenville County.
Adams was charged with three counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault and battery in the first degree. Adams’ apprehension came approximately five hours after police were alerted to an incident on the property of Sunrise Presbyterian Church near Breach Inlet on Sullivan’s Island.
“This was a search for an armed and dangerous man, who intentionally tried to run over elementary- to-middle-school-aged children on a playground,” said IOPPD Sgt. Matt Storen, special services and public information officer. “He is alleged to have assaulted his mother with a knife, taken her car, then used that car to intentionally run over the children.”…