COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — The City of Columbia Police Department is mourning the loss of Officer Christopher DeLong after he was killed in the line of duty on Saturday morning, after being shot and killed by 33-year-old Adam Dowdy.
It started after DeLong originally responded to Holstein Lane in Columbia for a report of Dowdy destroying a woman’s property.
“Saturday evening, we had a relative send us an updated news article, and that’s where we saw the name of the perpetrator and recognized his name”…