Goose Creek resident who shot, burned, buried men granted bail (SC)

[struggle4progress]

Andrew Knapp
May 9 2016 11:43 am
May 9 6:57 pm

... James Edward Loftis’ eagerness to make the self-defense argument in court helped sway a judge Monday to grant bail ... He fatally shot taxi driver Guma Oz Dubar .. and James Cody Newland .. on March 5 ...

Dubar, who operated the Global Mobile Taxi Service, gave Loftis a ride home early that morning from Stilettos Gentlemen’s Club, a strip joint ...

In documents, the Goose Creek Police Department portrayed Loftis’ account of what happened next: Dubar and Newland forced their way into the home and demanded the cab fare. Loftis said he would get the money, but he emerged .. instead with a .45-caliber pistol ...

His wife ... contacted the police.

Loftis told detectives that he had cleaned his home with bleach. He dug a hole in the backyard and put the bodies and his dirty clothes there. He burned the remains and covered them with dirt ...

http://www.postandcourier.com/20160509/160509396/goose-creek-resident-who-shot-burned-buried-men-granted-bail

[Human101948]

1. Very believable story...another good guy defensive gun use...

Yep, for sure!

[okieinpain]

5. incredible, how do you burn two people in the backyard

the go to bed.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Burning the clothes and burying the remains does not sound like it started with self defense.

Sounds more like hiding a crime to me.

[struggle4progress]

3. Sounds like it started with strip club patron stiffing cabbie on fare

[Demonaut]

4. well that's settled..he was defending his fare, and shortly burned and buried the men in his yard