Effingham News

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Authorities are looking for two minimum security inmates who walked away from their jobs at a South Carolina cannery near Florence.

Anyone who would like to voice support or opposition to Brady Johnson's parole may do so by writing a letter to the S.C. Board of Probation, Parole and Pardons, P.O. Box 50666, Columbia, SC 29250.

Investigators say Tabias Lorland McFadden of 116 Woods Drive, Olanta, and 25-year-old Joseph Antione Simmons of 11165 Douglas Swamp Road, Olanta, robbed the owner of a moped at gunpoint near Olanta Highway and Oak Grove Road near Effingham.

Florence police are on the scene of a shooting reported about 6 p.m. Tuesday at Rick's Pawn Shop on U.S. 52/West Lucas Street.