MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — One of the victims in last month’s deadly Ocean Boulevard officer-involved shooting in Myrtle Beach said Wednesday she was wounded by a bullet fired from an officer’s gun.
Fifteen-year-old Serenity Chavis was among the 11 people hurt in the April 26 incident in which Jerrius Davis, 18, of Bennettsville, was killed after authorities said he opened fire in a crowd of people gathered on the boulevard.
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“When the police shot me, I didn’t feel the bullet,” Chavis said at a news conference attended by her mother and a nationally known civil rights activist. “My leg just gave out, just like I couldn’t run no more, so I’m trying to drag my leg and go, and I just couldn’t do it no more. I just gave out, and I laid back, and when I laid back, I started screaming for help, and two officers came.”
Chavis described the moments after calling for help…