Deputies: S. Carolina lawmaker beat wife, pointed gun at her
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina House member who rebuked his colleagues in a Christmas card for lacking morals when they took down the Confederate flag is accused of beating his wife and pointing a gun at her, deputies said.
Officers in Aiken County charged Rep. Chris Corley with a pair of felonies that could send him to prison for up to 15 years after he attacked his wife during an argument over his infidelity late Monday night at their home in Graniteville, according to a police report.
The couple’s young children were there, and the wife took the family to her mother’s house across the street after Corley threatened to kill her, then said he would kill himself, the report said.
Corley’s wife said he stopped hitting her only after noticing she was bleeding and hearing the children screaming, deputies said.