{"id":8455,"date":"2023-03-23T02:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2023-03-23T02:18:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:18:52","slug":"veteran-allegedly-fatally-shoots-soldier-3-kids-in-domestic-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=8455","title":{"rendered":"Veteran allegedly fatally shoots soldier, 3 kids in domestic mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A military veteran allegedly gunned down three children and an active-duty soldier in a domestic mass shooting in South Carolina, authorities said.<br>The suspect, 42-year-old Charles Slacks, Jr., allegedly carried out the shootings at his ex-wife&#8217;s home around 10 p.m. Tuesday in Sumter, which is about 45 miles east of Columbia, police said.<br>Slacks allegedly shot the soldier, who was sitting in the backyard, and then killed the three children, two of whom were his own, Sumter Police Chief Russell Roark said at a news conference Wednesday.<br>Slacks then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Roark said.<br>Slacks&#8217; ex-wife was the only survivor, the chief said.<br>The children were ages 5, 6 and 11, Roark said.<br>Police only identified the adult victim as a 38-year-old active-duty Army member, citing the military&#8217;s need to notify next of kin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/3-kids-1-adult-killed-%20domestic-mass-shooting\/story?id=98040537\">Abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military veteran allegedly gunned down three children and an active-duty soldier in a domestic mass shooting in South Carolina, authorities said.The suspect, 42-year-old Charles Slacks, Jr., allegedly carried out the shootings at his ex-wife&#8217;s home around 10 p.m. Tuesday in Sumter, which is about 45 miles east of Columbia, police said.Slacks allegedly shot the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1910,4238,2638],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-allegedly","tag-soldier","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}