The FBI is analyzing shell casings found near power facilities in North Carolina and South Carolina, a law enforcement memo revealed, after gunfire led to nearly 96 hours of darkness in one North Carolina county.
A man hanging out of the passenger side of a hatchback opened fire with a rifle a little after 4:30 p.m., witnesses told Kershaw County Sheriff's deputies.
The gunfire happened about a half-mile from the hydro station and Sheriff Lee Boan said Thursday there's no immediately evidence the gunman was aiming at the power provider. "I currently have no reason to believe this shooting incident has anything to do with an attack on the hydro station," Sheriff Boan said."As of right now, I'm just not seeing the connection between the two."So far there's no indication whether the North Carolina attacks have any connection to Wednesday night's gunfire in South Carolina, according to a law enforcement memo reviewed by NBC News.
Authorities haven't publicly disclosed any possible motive for the North Carolina shooting. But investigators are sifting through a host of online conspiracy theories to determine if that might've played any motive in the attacks,A prevailing theory that took hold on social media was that the outages were intended to
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