Police say Officer Rogers was likely shot because Jones was under the impression that she knew what he had left behind in the apartment he was sharing with his on again/off again girlfriend, Cayce Vice.
He was wrong, but sadly that did not help Rogers, who was one of the most popular and dedicated officers on the force. She became the first female law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty, in South Carolina history.
And what of Vice? The 20-year-old’s lifeless body was found with two shots to the head, likely fired as she slept in the same bed with the killer, the same man who had fathered her yet unborn child.
As much as Cayce apparently loved Jones, his affections for her were far less dependable. Police had been called to their Washington Road apartment exactly three weeks earlier to find the girl beaten to a bloody pulp at the hands of the diminutive, yet monstrous man. He had gotten away on foot, and though they pursued him, deputies were unable to locate him. The police report tells the tale; she confronted him about cheating on her, and he beat her down in return. Officers saw that the apartment was secure, and told Cayce as she was taken to the hospital by ambulance that Joshua Jones was now a wanted man. If she knew where he was, all she had to do was call them and they would see that he was arrested.
Treated and released, Cayce did what many young women do in the wake of such an event. She cried to family, and then took to Facebook… switching her “status” from “in a relationship” to “single.” Ironically, her wall shows she then took the following action:
“Cayce likes ‘The Fight Against Domestic Violence’ and ‘Love Is Not Abuse.’”
But her resolve did not last long.
Some say that Joshua Jones is possessed by the Devil, and they say the proof was the hideous display he put on during his Aiken County bond hearing. Sounding like a snake, but coming across like Hell’s biggest imbecile, the video depicting the outburst has become one of the most widely viewed pieces of video ever connected to a local news story.
However ominously evil he appears in that footage, there was something about him that charmed Cayce Vice, and, just like so many of those fictional vampire victims, I’ll be damned if she didn’t invite the sick SOB right back into her life, her apartment and her bed.
One call to police from Cayce or her family, and he would have been hauled away in chains.
He had been back about a week when he decided to kill her.
Howard Vice, Cayce’s father, told Channel 12 news reporter Hope Jensen that he wished he had done more after Jones attacked weeks before. “I tried my best to get this girl out of this situation that she was in with this boy… I went almost as far as hurting him to get him to do something, but then I thought that wouldn’t work. And so maybe I should’ve went ahead and done what I was gonna do to him and that police lady might be alive and my daughter might be alive.”
Folks, I have no idea what I would do if a man harmed my 20-year-old daughter, but I hope and pray it was more than Cayce’s father was able to do for her.
Kill Jones? No.
Hog tie the bastard and drop him off at the jail? You betcha.
If Jones was sitting in a cell on Phinizy Road without bond, like he should have been after the January 8 beat down, Cayce Vice, her unborn child and Officer Sandy Rogers would still be alive today.You Might Also Like:
Opening the Door to Evil
by Austin Rhodes
According to pop culture mythology, the safest place to hide from a vampire is in your own home. The mystic rules dictate that the bloodsucker cannot enter the domicile of an intended victim without their expressed and uncoerced invitation.
In the real world the same goes for the majority of the female victims of domestic violence. They are targeted only after they invite their tormentors into their lives (and often their homes) freely, and of their own will (loosely quoting Gary Oldman’s Dracula).
We learned over the weekend that investigators believe 26-year-old convicted felon Joshua Jones already had blood on his hands as he took the life of Aiken Public Safety Officer Sandy Rogers. Approaching the car Jones had stolen from his father, Rogers never had a chance as the thug shot her once in the chest and then twice in the head at point blank range.
Police say Officer Rogers was likely shot because Jones was under the impression that she knew what he had left behind in the apartment he was sharing with his on again/off again girlfriend, Cayce Vice.
He was wrong, but sadly that did not help Rogers, who was one of the most popular and dedicated officers on the force. She became the first female law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty, in South Carolina history.
And what of Vice? The 20-year-old’s lifeless body was found with two shots to the head, likely fired as she slept in the same bed with the killer, the same man who had fathered her yet unborn child.
As much as Cayce apparently loved Jones, his affections for her were far less dependable. Police had been called to their Washington Road apartment exactly three weeks earlier to find the girl beaten to a bloody pulp at the hands of the diminutive, yet monstrous man. He had gotten away on foot, and though they pursued him, deputies were unable to locate him. The police report tells the tale; she confronted him about cheating on her, and he beat her down in return. Officers saw that the apartment was secure, and told Cayce as she was taken to the hospital by ambulance that Joshua Jones was now a wanted man. If she knew where he was, all she had to do was call them and they would see that he was arrested.
Treated and released, Cayce did what many young women do in the wake of such an event. She cried to family, and then took to Facebook… switching her “status” from “in a relationship” to “single.” Ironically, her wall shows she then took the following action:
“Cayce likes ‘The Fight Against Domestic Violence’ and ‘Love Is Not Abuse.’”
But her resolve did not last long.
Some say that Joshua Jones is possessed by the Devil, and they say the proof was the hideous display he put on during his Aiken County bond hearing. Sounding like a snake, but coming across like Hell’s biggest imbecile, the video depicting the outburst has become one of the most widely viewed pieces of video ever connected to a local news story.
However ominously evil he appears in that footage, there was something about him that charmed Cayce Vice, and, just like so many of those fictional vampire victims, I’ll be damned if she didn’t invite the sick SOB right back into her life, her apartment and her bed.
One call to police from Cayce or her family, and he would have been hauled away in chains.
He had been back about a week when he decided to kill her.
Howard Vice, Cayce’s father, told Channel 12 news reporter Hope Jensen that he wished he had done more after Jones attacked weeks before. “I tried my best to get this girl out of this situation that she was in with this boy… I went almost as far as hurting him to get him to do something, but then I thought that wouldn’t work. And so maybe I should’ve went ahead and done what I was gonna do to him and that police lady might be alive and my daughter might be alive.”
Folks, I have no idea what I would do if a man harmed my 20-year-old daughter, but I hope and pray it was more than Cayce’s father was able to do for her.
Kill Jones? No.
Hog tie the bastard and drop him off at the jail? You betcha.
If Jones was sitting in a cell on Phinizy Road without bond, like he should have been after the January 8 beat down, Cayce Vice, her unborn child and Officer Sandy Rogers would still be alive today.You Might Also Like:
Police say Officer Rogers was likely shot because Jones was under the impression that she knew what he had left behind in the apartment he was sharing with his on again/off again girlfriend, Cayce Vice.
He was wrong, but sadly that did not help Rogers, who was one of the most popular and dedicated officers on the force. She became the first female law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty, in South Carolina history.
And what of Vice? The 20-year-old’s lifeless body was found with two shots to the head, likely fired as she slept in the same bed with the killer, the same man who had fathered her yet unborn child.
As much as Cayce apparently loved Jones, his affections for her were far less dependable. Police had been called to their Washington Road apartment exactly three weeks earlier to find the girl beaten to a bloody pulp at the hands of the diminutive, yet monstrous man. He had gotten away on foot, and though they pursued him, deputies were unable to locate him. The police report tells the tale; she confronted him about cheating on her, and he beat her down in return. Officers saw that the apartment was secure, and told Cayce as she was taken to the hospital by ambulance that Joshua Jones was now a wanted man. If she knew where he was, all she had to do was call them and they would see that he was arrested.
Treated and released, Cayce did what many young women do in the wake of such an event. She cried to family, and then took to Facebook… switching her “status” from “in a relationship” to “single.” Ironically, her wall shows she then took the following action:
“Cayce likes ‘The Fight Against Domestic Violence’ and ‘Love Is Not Abuse.’”
But her resolve did not last long.
Some say that Joshua Jones is possessed by the Devil, and they say the proof was the hideous display he put on during his Aiken County bond hearing. Sounding like a snake, but coming across like Hell’s biggest imbecile, the video depicting the outburst has become one of the most widely viewed pieces of video ever connected to a local news story.
However ominously evil he appears in that footage, there was something about him that charmed Cayce Vice, and, just like so many of those fictional vampire victims, I’ll be damned if she didn’t invite the sick SOB right back into her life, her apartment and her bed.
One call to police from Cayce or her family, and he would have been hauled away in chains.
He had been back about a week when he decided to kill her.
Howard Vice, Cayce’s father, told Channel 12 news reporter Hope Jensen that he wished he had done more after Jones attacked weeks before. “I tried my best to get this girl out of this situation that she was in with this boy… I went almost as far as hurting him to get him to do something, but then I thought that wouldn’t work. And so maybe I should’ve went ahead and done what I was gonna do to him and that police lady might be alive and my daughter might be alive.”
Folks, I have no idea what I would do if a man harmed my 20-year-old daughter, but I hope and pray it was more than Cayce’s father was able to do for her.
Kill Jones? No.
Hog tie the bastard and drop him off at the jail? You betcha.
If Jones was sitting in a cell on Phinizy Road without bond, like he should have been after the January 8 beat down, Cayce Vice, her unborn child and Officer Sandy Rogers would still be alive today.You Might Also Like:
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