The following comes from the Oconee County Sheriff’s department:
By: Jimmy Watt
Public Information Officer(Walhalla, SC)——————————-Jason Mark Carter, who was committed and found incompetent to stand trial in the 2006 murder of his mother and stepfather, has escaped from a mental health facility in Columbia.
Carter, who is 39 years old, is a white male, 5’10”, 165 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a black coat with a black and white sweater underneath and brown cargo pants. He may be traveling in a stolen 1991 White Chevy van with a tag of SG61580 with the number 244 on the bumper. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is unsure of the method of escape.
On March 27th, 2006, deputies responded to 419 Meldau Road in Seneca in response to a welfare check. During their search, officers found the bodies of Kevin and Debra Ann Perkins inside a locked room in the basement with Carter inside with the victims.
If you come in contact with Jason Mark Carter, use extreme caution and report any sightings to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office at 864-638-4111, Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC or your local law enforcement agency.
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This is an interesting adjunct to our discussion regarding Edward Snowden and the NSA. The kinds of threats posed by this guy are sadly far too common and in the aggregate pose a far greater risk than any foreign terrorist threat. Yet no one would ever for one nanosecond consider wholesale sacrificing of our privacy to combat these kinds of domestic threats.
There’s no connection, Bud. The measures needed to address one threat is entirely different from those required by the other.
One situation is about keeping one guy in the hospital. The other is about detecting conspiracies among multiple people.
Night and day.
By the way, this isn’t the kind of local item I usually focus on here on the blog. But I did in this case for two reasons:
1. The description of the guy was sufficiently detailed that maybe one of my readers could have seen the guy and would realize it from reading this, and therefore publication could serve a public service.
2. The picture on thestate.com was too small and dark for readers to see it well. I thought I could help by going to the original bulletin at the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office site, grabbing the full-sized image (rather than the cramped, dark one that showed up on the site), and brightening it a bit so that you could actually see the guy’s features clearly. I tend to get frustrated by the utter lack of effort out there these days with regard to posting an image that’s worth showing to people. Photography was always a small part of what I did in my newspaper career, from film to digital, but I always took pride in doing it right. So few seem to do so these days,.
Oh, and did y’all see — they caught the guy, in Tennessee.
He was in a psychotic state when he murdered his parents,and out of touch with reality.I’m sure he wasn’t dangerous when he escaped,Bryan’s,8 years later.
I tend to agree, but he might have become so when cornered, as fugitives are wont
A murderer escapes custody and goes on the run – and you can say with some kind of apparent certainty that he is not dangerous?
If he wasn’t still dangerous, the mental health facility would not still be holding him, 8 years later. That sounds far more like reality to me…
A lot murders are victim specific. One might murder parents or spouse, but not randos on the street.
The Mayor: Callahan… I don’t want any more trouble like you had last year in the Fillmore district. You understand? That’s my policy.
Harry Callahan: Yeah, well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard that’s my policy.
The Mayor: Intent? How’d you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
The Mayor: I think he’s got a point.
We aren’t talking about the specific murders here. This is about whether this murderer has been determined to be “sane”, let alone safe. Clearly, he wasn’t at the time of his escape. So the State of SC was keeping him involuntarily hospitalized.
Anyway, if someone can kill, then as an escapee on the run I would think that it would be incumbent on everyone to presume that that person has the capability to kill again in furtherance of his escape attempt. If I had seen the guy, I would not have presumed that because he butchered his parents in their home that my family would be safe around him. I would have presumed that he was a dangerous menace to anyone crossing his path.
I think there is a difference in motivation. Paranoid delusions tell him to kill mom and pop. They probably don’t care about your family.
But to be on the safe side….
I’ve met him before and a friend of mine diagnosed him.He’ll probably be institutionalized for the rest of his life.As long as he stays on medication,he’s harmless.He probably felt his life was in danger at Bryan’s,and it probably was.Bryan’s should have been shut down years ago.
He’s probably competent to stand a retrial for murder.
The fact that he’s sane/competent,now,does not change the circumstances,at the time of the murder…
Yup.
So they can throw him in the state pen for the escape, right? And when he was on the loose (and not taking his meds) he was dangerous, right Bill and Kathryn?
We do need to maintain institutional care/holding/incarceration options. They may not be pleasant, but they are for us on the outside.
they are holding him for stealing the car