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COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- Three people were found slain Thursday in a
drainage pipe near an apartment complex, and police said a former boyfriend
of one of the victims would be charged with murder.
The bodies of a woman who had been stabbed to death and two men who had been
fatally shot were found by a neighbor near the woman's apartment, officials
said.
Prosecutors told police to draw up three murder warrants against Charles
Gamble, 24, who was the woman's ex-boyfriend and the father of her son,
Police Chief Dean Crisp said. (Watch investigators work the scene around the
ditch -- 1:40)
Gamble, who turned himself in earlier Thursday for questioning, also will be
charged with first-degree burglary and possession of a firearm in commission
of a felony, he said.
"We are confident we have the individual responsible for these tragic
murders," Crisp said.
Investigators were reviewing several potential motives, including a possible
domestic dispute, police said.
Rodrena Patrick, 20, who lives in the apartment complex, said she was a
close friend of Gamble's former girlfriend, Charlene Octavia Yarbrough, 19.
She said Gamble had been living at the complex until the couple got into a
fight about a month ago.
The couple's child had been taken into protective custody, she said.
The other victims were identified as Marcus Antonio Wilson, 26, and Marquis
Mitchell, 25.
Gamble, who has a criminal record dating back to a 2000 grand larceny
charge, was on probation for a stalking conviction, Crisp said.
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