Week in Review: Violence and Elections Lead the News

The week started with Goose Creek Police allege Ricardo Perez-Flores, 32, of 615 Rainey Drive in Ladson, used a sledgehammer to bash in the face of 28-year-old Arael De Leon Lopez. Motive was not known and its believed the two men were strangers before meeting hours before the attack at a Red Bank Road gas station and then traveling to Lopez’s home to drink beer. Hospital staff told police that every bone in Lopez’s face had been broken and that he would likely lose both of his eyes, but that he should survive his injuries. Perez-Flores has been charged with attempted murder.

Early Thursday, we learned that a security guard had shot a man at Karmarui’s Sports Bar & Grill at 1230 Red Bank Road. the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office was on the hunt for the injured man, 25-year-old Demar Devon Bacon of 5328 Tidewater Drive in North Charleston. Investigators determined the security guard fired through Bacon’s windshield after the suspect hit the guard with his car. Bacon wasn’t severely injured and released himself from the hospital. The Sheriff’s Department put a warrant out for his arrest for attempted murder, as well as other charges related to gun and drug possession.

The city collected petitions from more than 70 residents in the Red Bank Road area supporting annexation. Apparently, most of them . The vote was 25-59, with residents of the Sedgefield neighborhood rejecting the annexation plan.The area included businesses along Red Bank and Henry Brown Jr. Boulevard. But only residents could vote, and they said pretty loudly that they didn’t want city services.

The local nonprofit community is of its network next month. Goose Creek native Jermaine Husser announced on Tuesday that he’ll be leaving the Lowcountry Food Bank for a new job leading the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The local nonprofit says Husser built a team that can easily transition in his absence. But Husser’s leadership went beyond day-to-day operations — he has been a guiding force for philanthropic efforts in the Lowcountry and he will be missed.

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Post and Courier reporter Glenn Smith started asking questions about how a convicted killer could have a second life on Facebook and he got his answer this week. The social network yanked two profiles managed by Michael Jason Maxwell, who is serving a 60-year sentence for the murder of Goose Creek’s Christopher Teseniar. Christopher's mother, Lorena Teseniar told the P&C she was disgusted when she first found the web pages. "Just to think that someone like him could even have direct access to the outside world like that appalled me," she said.