South Carolina: Mulatto Charged with Homicide After Shooting White Man Dead

Taylor Ryan Strode.

Get used to those “pops,” Charles, because you’re going to be hearing a hell of a lot more of them if blacks continue to move into your neighborhood.

Myrtle Beach Online:

Several shots disrupted a peaceful Wednesday in a quiet, Horry County neighborhood. The day ended with one dead and another charged with murder.

Horry police responded to Greenleaf Drive around 5:20 p.m. for the reported shooting. Inside the home was Charles Lawrence, 57, dead from gunshot wounds. The suspect, Taylor Ryan Strode, was outside with a gun and didn’t immediately surrender to police.

Charles Harris lives next door and heard three “pops.” Before he knew it, police were in his backyard. Harris ran to wake his brother Scott Henderschedt, who was in a bit of a daze. He knew they had to get out of the house.

“I was stunned,” Henderschedt said.

But, with the standoff outside their front door and their backdoor in the potential line-of-fire, the two were left puzzled on an escape plan. The two brothers stayed on their property for the standoff’s duration.

SWAT and police negotiators arrived and talked to Strode, 26. Around 7:15 p.m, the situation was resolved with Strode detained. He was charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

Strode was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center on Wednesday evening and formally charged on Thursday.

A bond judge told him only a circuit court judge can set bail on potential death penalty cases. As a result, Strode will remain in jail until he can go to a circuit court hearing. Strode said he understood why there was no bail.

Strode has a limited criminal history in Horry County, according to court records. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to burglary and was sentenced under the state’s youthful offenders act.

Charles Lawrence.