Footage of what police describe as a road rage-related hate crime in Irvine last week has surfaced, showing a 54-year-old man appear to throw a cup of hot coffee at another motorist after reportedly hurling racial slurs at the man.

A Chase Bank in Parkville was vandalized last year in what is being described as a hate crime. The FBI is still searching for the suspect.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott identified the suspect who was the first arrest under the county’s new hate intimidation ordinance.

A hate crimes ordinance enacted by Richland County Council in June was put into play Friday by the sheriff’s department in this week’s shooting of a Black man by a white man.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Friday that Felkel, who is white, is accused of firing a gun at a Black man who was jogging in the Spring Valley area the morning of July 17. Lott said the victim was out jogging around 6 a.m. when Felkel allegedly pulled up in his car, fired a gun and made derogatory statements toward the victim.

The union flag was stolen from outside a civil service building in Derry and replaced with the Irish tricolour.

House and Senate appropriators are divided in their fiscal 2026 spending bills on whether to zero out funding for grants authorized under two laws focused on addressing hate crimes.

Winston Rulo suffered a brain bleed, facial fractures, an open skull fracture and other injuries from the July 19 attack, according to family and friends.