Reports: Manager Shot Twice in Heist

These items were selected from several hundred Mount Pleasant Police Reports filed over the last week.

All charges are pending and accused parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

McDonald’s manager shot twice in robbery

Police have arrested four men in connection with a Sept. 3 shooting and robbery of the McDonalds on Ironclad Road, but police have only said an employee was injured and that another employee conspired with the robbers to pull off the crime.

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The police incident report, however, details how the robbers pushed all the employees to the ground at gunpoint and then shot the store’s manager twice — once in the hand and once in the leg — when he wouldn’t comply with repeated demands to unlock a safe.

Bone found near Patriots Point

A Hanahan man, walking the beachhead near , reported to police that he found what he thought was a human bone.

Police report the bone was roughly six inches long and two inches thick and had a few barnacles on it, an incident report states. The officer wasn’t certain it was a human bone, but he stated that it seemed rather old.

The bone was sent to the Charleston County Coroner for testing, and the officer noted the location where the man reported finding it.

Red’s Ice House cited for noise

Neighbors in the Shem Creek area have reportedly grown frustrated with the loud music coming from popular .

On Sept. 5, after repeated calls, police asked the manager to turn down the music and officers issued the restaurant a noise violation summons. Managers will appear in Municipal Court on Oct. 10.

Late for school, kid improvises and gets lost

A scrappy student, who overslept and missed the bus, decided to ride his bike to class rather than be counted absent.

Too bad the kid lives on Long Point Road, a five-mile commute along some of Mount Pleasant’s busiest roads. He printed a map but still managed to get lost.

He turned up at Trident Academy and asked for directions there. That’s when police intervened and got the boy to class, but not before calling in his parents to alert them to the dangers their child faced.

Be careful on the bridge

A North Carolina tourist had a rude interaction with a biker on Sept. 5. As she was walking down the bridge, a cyclist practically ran her over, a report states.

She had scratches and abrasions on her hands and knees. Rather than apologizing to the 51-year-old woman, the 20-something biker launched into a tirade against the woman and then jetted off his bike.

Police documented the incident, but they did not see the cyclist after the event.

Funnier in the movies

In the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” Kathy Bates famously rams a parked car after young women zipped into a parking space on which she had been waiting.

Recently, when a Mount Pleasant woman refused to pull her vehicle fully into a parking space at , another motorist decided to use the Kathy Bates technique.

As the woman shopped, other customers told her that and older-model black BMW was ramming her GMC Acadia in the parking lot.

The GMC owner, however, decided not to press charges since the damage was minimal.