The Union County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident where a man allegedly shot at another man who had been called to give a woman a ride home.

Charles Shannon Nickles, 37, of 2011 Highway 66, Whitmire, was charged Tuesday by the Union County Sheriff’s Office with assault with intent to kill.

The victim, a 54-year-old Whitmire man, told Deputy Roxie Belue that his former girlfriend called him and asked him to pick her up at Mike’s Road because she and Nickles — her current boyfriend — had been into an argument and she needed a ride because Nickles had left. The victim said he was hesitant to go but agreed to pick the woman up if she would walk from the residence from which she had called to the highway and meet him.

The victim said he parked his truck across the road from Mike’s Road on Eaves Road with the front of his truck facing Mike’s Road. He didn’t see his former girlfriend but he did see Nickles coming from the woods. He pulled off quickly and started up Highway 176 toward Union. He said he heard Nickles firing a gun approximately five times.

One shot struck the tailgate of the victim’s truck before he could get away. He said he drove on back roads to Whitmire and stopped there to speak with a police officer who told him to call 911 and wait at the Kangaroo Express on Whitmire Highway.

Belue took a photograph of a gunshot hole in the tailgate of the victim’s 1998 Dodge Dakota truck. Three shell casings from a .25 caliber handgun were recovered in the roadway where the shooting occurred.

Lt. Kenneth Riddle said an investigation is continuing and more arrests are possible in the case.

Other arrests

— Jeremiah Antione Sims, 20, of 122 Bird St., was charged Tuesday by the sheriff’s office with obtaining property by false pretenses and petit larceny.

Sims is accused of being involved in the theft of a necklace from his neighbor on Bird Street that was pawned at Union Pawn and Gun on April 28. The silver necklace was worth $110.

— Lauren Hope Howell, 18, of 220 Lawson Ave., Union, was charged Monday by the sheriff’s office with nine counts of forgery. The victim on Raymond Road reported on May 7 that someone took her checkbook without permission and withdrew a large amount of money using different checks at different locations around Union County.

Assault on bus

Two girls — one who is 14 and the other 15 — told Sgt. Dee Haney Monday that a teen-ager on her school bus made her touch him inappropriately on two different occasions.

One of the girls said the boy told her if she told on him he would kill her.

The mother of one of the girls said she had talked with school officials about the problem.

The sheriff’s office is investigating.

Thefts

At the building site of the new school on 2200 Whitmire Highway, someone took $3,400 worth of materials. A representative with Joe’s Specialties of Cayce told Haney that between Saturday and Sunday someone took 200 feet of gutters, a bucket of gutter brackets and 200 feet of two-inch gutter straps.

Tuesday morning, a break-in was discovered at Monarch Elementary School on 218 Monarch School Drive. A report written by Deputy Russell Roark said a security camera showed what appeared to be a young male with long hair in the hallway shortly before 6 a.m. When the lights came on in the cafeteria, the suspect ran out of the door. The cash register worth $150 was taken from the cafeteria; there was no money in it.

In another classroom a computer was unplugged and overturned. An electric fan was broken.

Vandalism

A 15-year-old Union County High School student told Cpl. Jerome Beatty Monday that someone scratched her car all around, causing $1,500 damage.