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LANCASTER, S.C. – The final moments of Ingrid Mayer’s life were in her car in a ditch on the side of Grace Avenue in Lancaster. The 55-year-old was shot, the coroner tells WCCB, in the upper torso by Lancaster County Sheriff’s Deputies. It started as a call about an erratic, possibly drunk driver at 7:40 Thursday morning. Deputies responded and pulled Mayer over in a driveway.
Sheriff Barry Faile declined to say if Mayer got out of her vehicle, and he wouldn’t say if she had a weapon. He says, “According to our policies, everything looked to be justified at this time. We have turned it over to the State Law Enforcement Division for further investigation.”
“That’s a life they took. That’s all I can really say. That’s really sad,” says neighbor Annalene Michaw. She heard the gunfire and saw one of the three deputies run to the trunk of his car and get gloves out. She says, “He went running over to the car and opened the door and he was working on that woman.” She continues, “I couldn’t believe it when they told me she was dead, that they’d shot her.”
Neighbor Darrell Willis also heard the gunfire. He says, “There was two shell casings there, so he fired twice at her, and I don’t think she was firing back as far as I know.” He goes on to say, “The deputies told me before everybody got here that she was trying to run over an officer, is what he told me.”
Mayer had just been released from jail Wednesday. She had been arrested Tuesday for DUI. Her neighbor says Mayer had been going through a lot. Lancaster resident Charles Gardner says, “Yup, she has. Husband dying with cancer, boyfriend broke up with her.”
We talked to one of Mayer’s relatives. He says the Lancaster County Sheriff’s office won’t tell the family anything about Thursday’s shooting.
