Man exposed himself at bank but it’s not why he’s in jail, SC cops say. Here’s the charge
A North Carolina man is in a South Carolina jail on an attempted murder charge, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
Jason McConnell Yount was arrested after an incident that began with him exposing himself in public before he stabbed a police officer who responded by shooting Yount, SLED said in a news release.
Yount is a 42-year-old Newton, North Carolina resident, Charleston County court records show. Information about why Yount was in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, about 250 miles south of Newton, was not available.
On March 18, Mount Pleasant Police Department officers responded to a 911 call about a person, later identified as Yount, who exposed himself at a bank, according to the release. It was a branch of the First Horizon Bank in the 600 block of Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, police said.
At about 5:15 p.m., an officer located an individual matching the suspected flasher’s description near East Cooper Plaza, according to police.
There was an altercation between Yount and the officer, where Yount assaulted and stabbed the officer with a knife, and the officer shot the North Carolina man, SLED said.
Both Yount and the officer were taken to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston with what police said were “non-life-threatening injuries.” SLED said that the officer suffered multiple injuries, but further information on the officer’s condition was not available.
No other injuries were reported.
Both have been discharged from the hospital, and on March 20 Yount was arrested on the attempted murder charge, according to SLED. No bond was set and Yount remains locked up in the Al Cannon Detention Center, jail records show.
Yount is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 5, judicial records show.
Mount Pleasant police asked SLED to lead an investigation into the shooting. Because the investigation is ongoing, SLED said it’s not releasing any other information about the incident.
This was the first shooting involving a member of the Mount Pleasant Police Department this year, and there were no similar incidents involving the department in 2024, according to SLED. This was the ninth time in 2025 that a law enforcement officer in South Carolina was involved in a shooting after there were 45 of those incidents last year, SLED said.
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