SC man killed while buying ATV he found on Facebook Marketplace, deputies say

By Laurel Mallory | June 10, 2021 at 3:54 PM EDT – Updated June 10 at 4:44 PM BRANCHVILLE, S.C. (WIS) – A 17-year-old is charged with murder in the death of a man killed during a Facebook Marketplace transaction in rural Orangeburg County, officials said. It happened around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on Saddle Ridge Road in Branchville. The wife of the victim called 911 saying her husband was shot during an armed robbery as they were trying to buy an ATV. Her husband, 34-year-old Alexander Presley, died at the scene. She told deputies she and her husband took their two children to meet up with someone selling the four wheeler Wednesday afternoon. When they got there, they met 17-year-old Edward Stokes, who also had a younger child with him, deputies said. After Presley gave Stokes money for the ATV, they loaded it onto a trailer attached to the couple’s vehicle. That’s when the victim’s wife told deputies she “had a feeling something bad was about to happen.” She said Stokes attacked her husband, grabbed him by the back of the neck and shot him. The woman told deputies Stokes then pointed the gun at her before getting into her…
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