Police say a man in Little River had his cigarettes stolen only after his throat was cut while he was already unconscious.
John Lee Monroe Scott, 35, of Loris, is charged with one count of murder and one count of armed robbery; and Jeffrey Michael Landacre, 20, of Little River, is charged with accessory to murder in the death of Johnny Ray Caulder, 51, who died Saturday night.
Horry County police officers were called at 9:30 p.m. Saturday to B and M Interiors on U.S. 17, Sgt. Robert Kegler said, and found Caulder dead in the parking lot.
During the investigation, Horry County police detectives learned that Caulder and Scott had argued earlier in the evening while walking home from a friend's house, Kegler said. The argument turned physical when Scott elbowed Caulder and left him unconscious in the parking lot of the business.
Police said Scott returned to the scene with a knife and cut Caulder's throat before taking his cigarettes, Kegler said.
Landacre knew about the incident after the initial assault, and he had knowledge of Scott's intent of the homicide but did not report it to police, Kegler said.
According to a background search in the State Law Enforcement Division's criminal database, the men have not be previously charged with any felonies.
Holiday traffic deaths down from 2009
Two people died on S.C. highways from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday, according to a preliminary report from the S.C. Department of Public Safety.
The two deaths - one in Sumter and the other near Loris - are a steep drop from the 2009 Thanksgiving weekend when nine people died in wrecks across the state.
On Sunday, Charmaine S. Cox, 47, was killed in a car crash on S.C. 66 near Loris.
The crash took place about 2 p.m. near the intersection of Secondary Highway 66 and Airport Road, said Lance Cpl. Sonny Collins with the S.C. Highway Patrol.
Horry County Coroner Robert Edge said the N.C. woman apparently lost control of her car, and it crossed the road and flipped several times. Collins said Cox was not wearing a seat belt.
As of Sunday, 706 people have died on S.C. highways in 2010, compared to 824 people during the same time period in 2009, officials said. Of the 524 motor-vehicle occupants who have died so far this year, 286 were not wearing seat belts.
Through midnight Sunday, 71 motorcyclists, 78 pedestrians and 11 bicyclists have died on state roads and highways. There have been 37 fatal crashes where the use of seat belts is unknown.
Police seek answers in woman's death
Horry County officials continue to investigate the death of a woman whose body was found earlier this month in a field near Myrtle Beach.
The woman's body was found Nov. 15 in a grassy field off Palmetto Pointe Boulevard by a 13-year-old boy and two of his friends, according to an Horry County police report.
Authorities sent the body to an anthropologist in Charleston to help determine her identity and cause of death, said Horry County Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard. No new information about the woman was available Monday, she said.
The woman is described as older with dark hair that had some gray in it, Willard said. The woman was approximately a size 8 or size 10.
The boy and his friends told police they were walking in a grassy field across from 3710 Palmetto Pointe Blvd., trying to find sticks to build a fort, when he saw the body, according to the police report. The teen said he told his friends and they all ran away from the location and met with his mother.
It is not known how long the woman's body was in the woods, but Willard said it was likely there for less than a year.
Police arrest four men after fight
Four men were arrested Sunday at Broadway at the Beach for a fight inside Crocodile Rocks, according to a police report.
Michael Edward Ingram, 53, Robert M. Ingram, 23, Vincent S. Mezzapella, 23, all of Myrtle Beach, and Peter Kutch, 36, of Clifton, N.J., were each charged with third-degree assault and battery, police said.
Police were called about 1:40 a.m. Sunday to Celebrity Circle for the incident in which a security guard told officers the men assaulted him and two others, police said. The guard told police he saw the men arguing with a bouncer from the business and a fight occurred between the men.
Woman charged with prostitution
A 45-year-old woman was arrested by Myrtle Beach police on a charge of prostitution, according to a police report.
Lisa Amanda McCowan, 45, of Myrtle Beach, was charged with second-offense prostitution at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Seventh Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard, police said.
An undercover officer saw McCowan walking and asked if she wanted a ride, according to the report. McCowan got into the vehicle and agreed to perform a sex act for $25.
Another officer stopped the vehicle and arrested McCowan, according to the report.
She was convicted of prostitution in 2005, as well.
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