S. Carolina police charge 4 under lynching law in man's death

Authorities have arrested four men in a Christmas night beating that left a Charlotte man dead in Indian Land, S.C. All four were charged Saturday with first-degree lynching in the killing of Ronnie Wallace, 42. Under S.C. law, first-degree lynching is defined as a mob attack by two or more people that results in the victim's death. It doesn't relate to the victim's race or actual hanging. The men beat Wallace with 2-by-4s and sticks until he was unconscious, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office. All four men were being held in the Lancaster County jail without bond. Sheriff's deputies arrived to find Wallace's brother Tommy Wallace kneeling over his unconscious brother. Ronnie Gene Wallace died from his injuries at Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville.