Overview

• Kiran Patel, 49, was fatally shot at DD’s Food Mart in Union County during an apparent robbery, according to local officials.
• Zaedan Mack Hill, 21, was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff and has been charged with murder and booked into the Union County jail.
• SLED, SWAT and Union Public Safety executed search and arrest warrants at a South Church Street residence before officers compelled Hill to surrender.
• Investigators linked Hill to a second Sept. 16 incident in which Charles Nathan Crosby was found unresponsive on South Mountain Street.
• Authorities and local records place the case in South Carolina, countering some reports that misstated the location as California.