A South Carolina burglar shot and killed his accomplice after the two got into an argument over stolen goods, police told WLTX.
Witnesses say the suspected killer, 46-year-old Anthony Wayne Jeffcoat, argued with the victim Steven Lee Boone Thursday morning in the outside shed of a home in Gaston, Lexington County.
Disagreeing over how to divide items they recently stole from homes, Jeffcoat picked up a stolen gun and allegedly shot his 41-year-old accomplice in the chest. A coroner said Boone suffered a gunshot wound to the heart and bled to death, the Associated Press reported.
Jeffcoat, who was temporarily living in the shed, fled the scene but later surrendered and was arrested, police told WLTX. He was charged with murder and was held at the Lexington County Jail.
It is not yet clear if he has a lawyer, the AP reported.
In other robbery news, a 21-year-old man shot his accomplice last Friday during an armed robbery of another man in Philadelphia. This time around the shooter, Antoine Hardy, shot his accomplice, 22-year-old Isiah Bebee, by accident when he open fired on the victim as he tried to flee, police told NBC Philadelphia.
Bebee and the victim survived and the two robbers were arrested.
