South Carolina News
Agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) are investigating an officer-involved shooting Saturday afternoon in Laurens County involving Laurens County deputies and an armed woman that resulted in the woman, Kalah Shannon Gary, 26, being shot.
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Gary died at the scene. No law enforcement officers were injured. SLED was requested to investigate by the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office.
SLED agents will conduct interviews with all potential witnesses in this matter. Further, SLED will collect all relevant evidence and will forensically test such evidence as needed.
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Information gathered in the SLED investigation of the incident will be summarized in a case file report to be submitted to prosecutors. This is an ongoing investigation.
The incident in Laurens County was the 15th officer-involved shooting in South Carolina in 2022.
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This is the 1st officer-involved shooting involving the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office this year. In 2021, there were 40 officer-involved shootings in South Carolina; Laurens County Sheriff’s Office had no officer-involved shootings last year.