Authorities ID chef slain at Charleston restaurant

  25 August 2017    Read: 1184
Authorities ID chef slain at Charleston restaurant
Authorities have identified the chef who was fatally shot at a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina.

Charleston County deputy coroner Sheila Williams said in an email late Thursday that the slaying victim was 37-year-old Anthony Shane Whiddon, the executive chef at Virginia’s restaurant.
Authorities and one of the restaurant’s owners said the gunman in the lunchtime slaying Thursday was a dishwasher who had been fired from the restaurant, which is located on a tourist-heavy section of downtown Charleston.

The gunman also took a hostage, prompting a three-hour standoff that ended with the suspect being shot and critically wounded by police. The suspect’s name has not been released. The hostage was unharmed.

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