_The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement
and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement._
— An officer responded to a report of a “scuffle” on a basketball court at Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center on the evening of April 12. The victim told police he was trying to save a ball from going out of bounds when the ball hit another player. The player then pushed the victim and began to swing at him before another man intervened. When police arrived, the victim was being pushed by two individuals. As the victim was leaving, he told staff that they “needed more security before someone gets shot.” An employee said that nobody would be getting shot at the gym, to which the victim sarcastically replied “OK,” according to the report. The victim later denied saying this to the police and said he did not want to press charges.
— Police were called to the Kappa Alpha fraternity house on April 14 in response to a stolen flag. A Kappa Alpha member showed police surveillance footage of an unknown white male stretching on the Kappa Alpha porch before jumping up, pulling the flag down forcefully and taking off running towards what the report calls the “Phi Nu” house. A Kappa Alpha member told The Daily Gamecock that the suspect ran toward the Sigma Nu fraternity house. An officer found the flag on the house’s back porch and estimated that $30 of damage had been done to the flag mount. Members of what the report identifies as “Phi Nu” and “Beta” reviewed the footage but could not identify the man.
— Bates House Crime of the Week: An officer was dispatched to Bates House early April 14 in response to vandalism. A resident mentor told the officer that between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m., someone had painted male genitalia and “flung paint” on several doors across different wings and floors. Blue paint had been flung onto doors on the sixth floor of the B wing, pink genitals had been painted onto doors on the sixth floor of the C wing and blue genitals on doors on the seventh floor of the C wing. Officers found 19 doors and one window painted, as well as paint on the floor. The damage to the doors was estimated at $200, and the damage to the carpet was estimated at $30. Police recovered paint brushes and bottles of pink and blue paint.