Man kidnaps 24-year-old, shoots her dead while driving on interstate, SC cops say
A 24-year-old woman died after being kidnapped and shot in a vehicle traveling along an interstate in South Carolina, deputies said.
Traffic in the northbound lanes of I-85, near Mauldin, was stopped May 24 after two people were found dead in a blue Subaru Impreza, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
Deputies said a 38-year-old man fired a gun at a woman, whom he’d kidnapped in Mauldin.
Then, the man turned the car around and fatally shot himself, deputies said.
Responding officers took the woman to a hospital where she died, deputies said.
“It appears the two people knew each other well but specifics are still being looked into,” deputies said.
The victim was identified by the Anderson County Coroner’s Office as Tayler Gennalee Maraj, according to WYFF. She had been shot in the head, the coroner told the news outlet.
The investigation is ongoing, deputies said.
Mauldin is about a 90-mile drive northwest from Columbia.
