COLUMBIA, S.C. ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — McBee Police Officer Jarrell Wright followed a white Toyota truck a half of a mile, from the only stoplight in McBee, until it finally stopped on the McBee High School campus.
Wright clocked the driver, Alston Modlin, running around twice the speed limit in the 25 mph zone near the lone, main intersection in town. Investigators said Modlin had just walked out of a water heater manufacturing plant in McBee after finishing his shift on Sept. 20.
Modlin was a welder and worked the second shift at the McBee A.O. Smith plant.
Wright encountered the 27-year-old man a few minutes past 11 p.m. that night…