Kidnapping Suspect Shot During Shootout In Cherokee County, Charges Filed
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Case Kidnapping
Case Kidnapping
Published: July 20, 2009
Updated: July 20, 2009
**Update 2:00 p.m.**
Chief Deputy Joel Hill with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says Jerry Case has been charged in the Saturday incidents. Warrants haven’t been served since he is hospitalized at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Case’s charges are 4 counts of kidnapping, 1 count of assault and battery with intent to kill on a deputy, and 1 count of assault with intent to kill on a deputy. Case remains at Spartanburg Regional under armed guard.
At last report at noon Monday Case was in fair condition.
Saturday
A kidnapping suspect with a long criminal history has been shot and a Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputy wounded after a shootout in Cherokee County Saturday morning.
Jerry Douglas Case, 52, was shot and wounded after a shootout with Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies in a wooded area at the intersection of Highway 18 and Interstate 85. News Channel 7 has learned that Case was paroled June 5, 2008 by the North Carolina Department of Corrections after receiving the death penalty in 1986 for the murder of a taxi cab driver and later had his sentence commuted to life in prison in 1992 by the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Investigators said Case held a man, his daughter and two young children hostage Friday night in Gaston County and later kidnapped them. According to a press release issued early Saturday by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, Case drove to Cherokee County and stopped at the Kangaroo Gas Station, located at 403 Shelby Highway, near Gaffney. After Case went inside the convenience store presumably to pay for gas, the four people managed to escape in the vehicle Case was driving and call for help. Officers arrived on scene and Case fled into a wooded area near the store as they began tracking him. Case then allegedly fired several shots at officers, striking one in the leg. Officers returned fire several times striking Case.
Case was air lifted to Spartanburg Regional Hospital and is currently in critical condition, according to a hospital spokesperson. The officer received minor injuries and did not require medical attention.
News Channel 7 has learned that Case’s lengthy criminal background history dates back to 1974 and includes convictions for first-degree murder, second-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, assaulting a policeman, escape and breaking and entering.
Gaston County deputies are interviewing the victims and kidnapping charges are pending. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the shooting.
Case is in serious condition at Spartanburg Regional Hospital.
Solicitor Trey Gowdy says kidnapping and assualt and battery with intent to kill charges may be filed against Case on Monday.
Amy Wood’s blog
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I don’t care if the officer was shot with a pellet gun or a water gun, this piece of trash is a double murderer and out on parole? Burris has a 25 page rap sheet and he was walking the streets? What on God’s green earth is North Carolina doing up there? Letting these sorry excuses for human beings out to terrorize society. I would like to say I am glad to be in South Carolina away from these maniacs but both of them came here to continue their reigns of terror. I guess North Carolina’s judicial system was just to cruel for them and maybe they figured we would take it easy on ‘em!!!!
not only is this the 2nd guy to do something like this in cherokee county…he also has ties to gaston county like patrick burris the gaffney serial killer and he was also a work release inmate employed by ultra machine and fabrication…what is this company thinking
my opinion is they should bring back hanging.stop all these appeals long years sitting in prision.spending all these tax dollars then turn them loose.nonsense.HANG 2 OR 3 OF THEM SHOW THEM WE ARE NOT PLAYING IT STOP OR SLOW WAY DOWN.I SAY LETS TRY IT WHATS IT GONNA HURT????
your rite he really shouldnt a been out on the streets thats the second person that shoulda been locked up for the rest of there life in gaffney that has caused a problem….this one was rite up the street from my house and my family way to go!!!!!!!
It figures, you have criminals like this out on the street when you have others with minor drug offenses spending years and years and years in prison. This just goes to show you how truely screwed up our judicial system is. The officials responsible for his release should be held accountable for this crime as well. WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING!!!!
really…
how does a guy like this get out of jail on parole? If their going to let him out, the might as well let out my cousin who was falsely imprisoned
Like ALL other counties and cities we have our own criminal element without them coming in from other places. No city is crime free in the day and age.
Also like many others I carry something with me all the time even at home. At least at home I can open carry throughout the neighborhood without any complaints. Our neighborhood watches out for one another and if somebody comes up in the middle of the night, we usually find out why they are there. Phone in one hand and firearm in the other.
Rasputin, I assure you, when I walk out my door my CWP is in my pocket and my Springfield XD 40 is tucked in it’s hidey spot.
Another piece of scum set free by the North Carolina judicial system to come to Cherokee County South Carolina and shoot at people. Wonder how NC will explain this one. Tracy Burris was thought to be non violent until he killed five people but this guy convicted of murder and kidnapping??? No way he should have EVER been allowed back into society. Come on North Carolina!!!
The police officer was shot with a pellet gun from what I read on another board. The police should just give up and go home. The sorry excuse we have for a “system” is going to get us all killed. Arm yourself folks.
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