There are a lot of weird things that happen in the city of Olney (various protestors over things that shouldn’t be protested at city meetings being among that number), but the weirdest seems to happen when it comes to crimes.
And while there are a growing number of unsolved deaths (see also here, and here) in that city, the more common criminal activity seems to center around things like drugs, vandalism, and in the case of this front-page article, violence.
Here now is a tidbit for your noontime Read the Lead, Youth battered, police mute, another one of those things that happens in Olney and Richland County that no one seems to be willing to talk about:
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OLNEY—A situation of either a hit-and-run driver, or a fight, that reportedly started at a location between Olney and Noble and ended at the Olney McDonald’s restaurant has left friends and family of a 17-year-old Olney boy perplexed over local law enforcement’s response to the matter.
Officially, Olney’s chief of police Kevin Paddock said there is an ongoing investigation, but with not much to go on.
Paddock did confirm, however, that the incident occurred early Sunday morning, July 13, when at approximately 3:01 a.m.
At that time, authorities responded to McDonald’s in Olney of a report of a 17-year-old male who was found by a McDonald’s employee outside in McDonald’s parking lot.
When authorities talked to the male he advised that he “thought he had been hit by a car.”
However, he then later said that he “might’ve been in a fight.”
Paddock said the male was transported to Richland Memorial Hospital to be treated for minor injuries he sustained, which included a black eye and a cut above his eye.
Friends and family have advised Disclosure that there was a little more to it than….
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