Clover felon charged with shooting 3 in Rock Hill on New Year’s Day, police say
A convicted felon from Clover has been arrested for the New Year’s Day shooting of three people in Rock Hill, according to police and court records.
Santwan Lamontre Hart, 25, was taken into custody Tuesday by officers with the Rock Hill Police Department violent crimes unit, officials said.
Hart is charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to police and jail records.
Two men and a woman were shot during an attack around 12:30 a.m. Jan. 1 at a Booker Washington Street home, officials said. Two of the victims remain hospitalized, said Lt. Michael Chavis of the Rock Hill Police Department.
The victims are a man, age 64; a man, 52; and a woman, 42, police said.
Their identities have not been released.
No motive for the shootings has been released. However, the victims and the suspect knew each other, Chavis said.
“This was not a random attack,” Chavis said Tuesday.
Detectives had warrants for Hart’s arrest for days after an investigation and interviews showed he was the suspect, Chavis said.
The shooting happened in the 200 block of the street close to S.C. 901 on the city’s southern edge, near Heckle Boulevard and Crawford Road. No neighbors or other people at the home were hurt, Chavis said.
Attempted murder carries up to 30 years for each conviction under South Carolina law. The gun charges each carry up to five years in prison, state law shows.
Hart was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2011 after York County convictions for attempted murder and shooting into a house in Rock Hill, when Heart was 16 years old, according to court records.
Hart was recently released from South Carolina prison after a two-year sentence after a conviction in October 2018 for drugs violations, York County court records show.
Hart also has three other drug convictions and a conviction for domestic violence, records show.
