By MIKE ELLIS
WILLIAMSTON --- A Williamston
police officer was fired this week after being charged with criminal domestic
violence for the second time in five weeks, Williamston Police Chief Tony
Taylor confirmed.
Christopher Shaw Whitfield, 31,
was charged March 11 with criminal domestic violence after an alleged fight
with his wife over a cellphone. That charge was dropped March 28.
He was charged again this week
with a separate incident of criminal domestic violence after allegedly
threatening to shoot his wife in the couple's home Wednesday, according to a
warrant.
The South Carolina Law
Enforcement Division was asked to investigate the second accusation at the
request of the Williamston Police Department, Taylor said.
Whitfield remains at the
Anderson County Detention Center and a bond has not been set for his release.
He will be prosecuted by the
10th Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office.
Before working at the
Williamston department, Whitfield was a deputy with the Anderson County
Sheriff's Office from 2005 until September 2012 except for four months in 2007.