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Police looking for 6 ‘persons of interest’ after fire destroys historic SC mental hospital
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Police say they are looking for six people who might know how a massive fire started at a historic South Carolina mental hospital Saturday morning. The early morning fire devastated the iconic building whose architectural beauty and past as South Carolina’s state mental institution have long been features of both the capital city’s skyline and historic lore.Officials said crews were called early Saturday to a fire at the Dr. James Woods Babcock Building, part of a shuttered former mental health asylum that was slated to be converted into a luxury housing development. In the...…COLUMBIA, S.C. — Police say they are looking for six people who might know how a massive fire started at a historic South Carolina mental hospital Saturday morning. The early morning fire devastated the iconic building whose architectural beauty and past as South Carolina’s state mental institution have long been features of both the capital city’s skyline and historic lore.Officials said crews were called early Saturday to a fire at the Dr. James Woods Babcock Building, part of a shuttered former mental health asylum that was slated to be converted into a luxury housing development. In the...WW…
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