BLYTHEWOOD – Almost a hundred members of the community gathered at Doko Manor Monday evening to hear Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott update them on the arrests of seven 18 to 23-year-olds involved in a recent shootout in downtown Blythewood. He also talked about recent trends in which hundreds of teens swarming nighttime Doko Park events and disrupting them with fighting that resulted in terrified parents running from the park with their children in tow.
Lott also criticized the community and businesses for not calling RSCD prior to the shots being fired on downtown Blythewood at approximately 1 o’clock in the morning of April 5.
While acknowledging that these ‘pop-up’ parties can assemble in a matter of minutes, he said, “the town can’t be a magnet that allows them (shooters) to come up and do what they did that night with over 200 kids and take it over…