On a Saturday morning in Columbia, South Carolina, what began as a routine response to a domestic dispute became a fatal confrontation that claimed two lives and wounded a third. Officer Christopher DeLong, 29, a two-year veteran of the Columbia Police Department, was killed in a gunfight with a suspect at a local park — leaving behind a wife, two young children, and a department in mourning. The suspect, Adam Tyler Dowdy, 33, was also killed in the exchange, while Officer David Dymock survived with stable injuries. In the space of an hour, a woman's call for help set in motion a chain of even
South Carolina officer killed in gunfight with domestic dispute suspect
Police officer Christopher DeLong, 29, was killed in the gunfight; another officer David Dymock was wounded; suspect Adam Tyler Dowdy was also killed.