Two weeks after SC shooting, second officer dies from injuries

Gov. Henry McMaster said on Twitter Monday night that Investigator Farrah B. Turner, with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office, died after being hospitalized and “fighting for her life for more than two weeks.”

Turner was one of seven officers shot when 74-year-old Frederick Hopkins opened fire on Oct. 3. She had been in critical condition since the shooting and both her feet had been amputated.

Sgt. Terrence Carraway, who was also shot during the incident, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities said Hopkins fired a storm of bullets from a high-powered rifle, authorities said.

The gunfire was so heavy, officers already shot could not be immediately rescued. One officer was shot while still in a patrol car. It took an armored vehicle to get to there.

Police and sheriff’s deputies were at the home to serve a search warrant in an investigation of an alleged sexual assault against a foster child, authorities said.

As law enforcement approached the door, the shooting started, they said.

A Vietnam veteran and disbarred attorney, Hopkins reportedly had references to guns on his social media profiles.

After a two-hour standoff, he was arrested.

Hopkins' son, the alleged suspect in the assault investigation, was also shot and taken to a hospital.