Cable TV Worker Killed, Public Workers Shot in S. Carolina

Cable TV Worker Killed, Public Workers Shot in S. Carolina
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—A Charter Communications worker was killed in a South Carolina shooting and standoff that also wounded two public workers repairing a sewer main, a deputy, and a woman inside the home where the shooter was barricaded, authorities said.

The man who shot the workers fixing the sewer, 45-year-old Shannon Earl Smith, died from at least one gunshot wound at the hospital shortly after the standoff ended Thursday around 5 p.m., authorities said.