South Carolina Officer Killed, Partner Wounded in Domestic Call Gunfight

On a Saturday morning in Columbia, South Carolina, a routine response to a domestic disturbance became the last call Officer Christopher DeLong would ever answer. At 29, with two years on the force and two young children at home, he was killed in a brief exchange of gunfire with a man whose long history of encounters with the law had never resolved into safety. His partner was wounded, the suspect also died, and what remained was the familiar, devastating arithmetic of lives altered in seconds — a family broken, a department grieving, and a community left to reckon with the fragile line betwee