A Columbia area white man has been charged with a hate crime in the shooting of a Black man, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced Friday.
It is the first hate crimes arrest under Richland County’s new hate crimes ordinance, enacted in early June.
“An individual had a gun and shot at some solely on the race of the victim,” said Lott, who played a video at a Friday press conference showing a shot being fired in the direction of a black jogger near an entrance to the Spring Valley subdivision…