Police charged a gas station convenience store owner with murder Monday after he allegedly shot and killed a 14-year-old boy wrongly accused of shoplifting in South Carolina, officials said.
Rick Chow, 58, mistakenly thought Cyrus Carmack-Belton had taken four bottles of water on Sunday night, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said during a press conference. The teen ran out of the Xpress Mart Shell station in Columbia after a verbal confrontation. Chow's son chased after him and was then joined by his armed father.
Chow was charged after the autopsy showed the teen was shot in the back and deputies spoke to witnesses and reviewed surveillance videos, Lott said. A gun was found near Carmack-Belton's body, Lott said. During the chase, Chow's son had called out that the teen had a gun, but there was no indication that the teen ever pointed a gun at the father and son.
"Even if he had shoplifted four bottles of water, which he had taken out of the cooler and then put back — even if he had done that, that's not something you should shoot anybody over, much less a 14-year-old," Lott said.
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