New Mom, 31, Found Dead After Being Run Over and Dragged by Car in Shopping Center Parking Lot

A South Carolina woman who welcomed her first baby less than four months ago has died after being struck by a vehicle and dragged along the ground.

According to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a shopping center parking lot on the city’s Whitney Road for a welfare check at around 3:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Jan. 7. Investigators responded after receiving a report about a woman in the parking lot “who appeared to be deceased.”

At the scene, officials identified the woman as 31-year-old Dané Josephine Waddell. Authorities later determined she had “sustained fatal injuries” caused by a vehicle. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger told FOX Carolina, WYFF and The Post and Courier that officials “have evidence that she was run over and dragged by a vehicle.”…

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