Gaffney News

Burris is suspected of killing five people before being shot dead by police. He is the second killer to stalk Gaffney, S.C., over the last 41 years.

Patrick Burris, suspected S.C. serial killer, once lived in Edgewater, but his brother, Randy, said Wednesday the man had not lived in the state for 20 years.

The hymn they sang today at the Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church was "It Is Well With My Soul." But for many in the congregation and the community, the sense of well being has been shattered.

A serial killer is reportedly on the loose in a tiny town in South Carolina. Five people have been shot to death in a ten-mile-radius. The most recent victim was a young girl named Abby Tyler who died in the hospital after two days of suffering from gunshot wounds.

GAFFNEY, S.C. a ' A South Carolina work crew has found a body, but the coroner says the remains don't appear to be related to a serial killer who recently shot five people to death.

Patrick Burris told his fiance he needed to go find work. Then, the killings started.

Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said he has offered to help Gaffney police search for the killer of five people.

Could the Gaffney serial killer be responsible for last month's murder of a Mooresville man? That's one of many questions the Mooresville Police Department is asking as it continues the month-old investigation into the shooting death of a local resident.

According to breaking news reports, the killer was shot and killed when police responded to a breaking and entering around 2:44 AM this morning, July 6, 2009.

The South Carolina serial killer who terrorized a small community was well-known to authorities as a bully, so intimidating that a scared elderly man once refused to testify against him and extortion charges were thrown out.

A SMALL town has been gripped in terror after a serial killer struck five times in six days.

Investigators didn't hesitate to label the man suspected of slaying five people in Gaffney, S.C., a serial killer.

Police in North Carolina Monday shot to death the man who had killed five people in South Carolina, officials said.

Shadows have chased away the sunshine that nurtured Kay Parker's backyard vegetable garden.

Columbia, S.C. - July 6, 2009 - In an e-mail to WJBF News Channel 6, on Monday, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford issued the following statement on the recent string of homicides in the Gaffney area: "We've all watched and been shocked by news of the recent murders in Cherokee County," Gov.

Police ID dead SC killing suspect...Jackson memorial...Obama in Moscow GAFFNEY, S.C. Law enforcement officials say they think 41-year-old Patrick Tracy Burris is the person who shot five people to death in recent days around Gaffney, S.C. He himself was shot to death by police today during a burglary in neighboring North Carolina.

Does small town South Carolina have a serial killer on their hands? Five people have been killed in South Carolina and are being linked to one lone male serial killer .

A sketch of the serial killer police in northwestern South Carolina believe murdered five people; the suspect still is on the loose.

A victim whose body was found on the side of a street in Gaffney is not connected to recent serial killings, according to the Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler.

The Clarendon County Sheriff's Office is helping out with a massive manhunt for a suspected serial killer in the Gaffney area.