Tragedy Strikes Sumter Home: Children and Soldier Killed in Domestic Shooting

Charles Edward Slacks Jr., a military veteran, shot and killed his two children, his young stepdaughter, and a decorated soldier before taking his own life in Sumter. Slacks served in the regular Army as a Track Vehicle Mechanic and held the rank of staff sergeant. He had 8 non-consecutive years of service with the Department of the Army Civilian and began at the U.S. Army Central as a civilian employee less than a month before the killings.