2 teens - armed home invasion

As I was driving out of The Summit on Wednesday, June 5, I encountered a long line of traffic backed up on Summit Parkway at Hard Scrabble Road. I turned and drove through Elders Pond subdivision to access Hard Scrabble Road by Walgreens. There were many deputies and at least one K-9 who seemed to be searching around the pond near Kendrick Road.

This article in The State, finally published on June 6, 2019 at 5:08PM, explains what it was all about.

Two students, 14 and 15, are described as having invaded a home on Wild Indigo Court (map), and the younger threatened to kill the teen-age girl who had been asleep when they broke in. Fortunately, she did not hesitate to call the Richland County Sheriff's Department.

Ridge View High School was placed on lockdown. Were the two boys students there? The story says the girl in the home knew them. Was Rice Creek Elementary School also locked down?

Where did they get the gun? Were both armed?

Should the identities of minors who are accused of committing major crimes like this be withheld from the public? I don't think so!

A 14-year-old with a gun who threatens to kill someone does not deserve to have his identity shielded by an archaic law.

If you know who they are, let me know. After I confirm it, I'll publish their names, addresses and the name of any school in which they are enrolled.

Hopefully, they will be charged and tried as adults. They should not be allowed to take advantage of the more lenient treatment that juvenile offenders expect.

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