Serial Killer Strikes fear into the heart of a small South Carolina Community.

This seriously sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel.

Residents of a small community in Upstate South Carolina spent the weekend locked up inside, armed and ready to protect themselves from a serial killer who has shot five and killed four people in six days.

The victims who all lived near Gaffney, South Carolina appear to be random and range in age from a 15 year old girl to an 83 year old woman.

Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton affirmed at a new conference saying “Yes, we have a serial killer”

Blanton went on to say that there is evidence from the crime scenes linking the deaths to one suspect.

Investigators have released a sketch, and description of the suspects vehicle, which they received from sources unknown.

The Victims:

June 27: Cline Cash, 63, a peach farmer was shot inside his home on Battleground Road.

July 2: Hazel Linder, 83, and daughter, Gena Parker, 50 were found bound and shot in their home on Buck Shoals Road.

July 3: Stephen Tyler, 45, and his unnamed 15 year old daughter were shot n their small furniture and appliance store near downtown Gaffney. Luckily the teenager survived, sadly the father did not.

All Locked Up…

The shootings took place 10 miles apart from each other. Most of them happening in rural Cherokee County, population 54,000 – roughly 50 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina.

State Senator Harvey Peeler was quoted saying: “There is no greater fear than the fear of the unknown and nobody knows. You can cut the tension with a knife. People are locking their doors, even in broad daylight. They have their guard up, and their gun handy.”

Sheriff Blanton descibed the suspect as having salt and pepper hair, standing about 6 feet 2 inches tall, and driving a early 90′s Silver Ford Explorer.

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