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Police seek help solving Bikefest slayings

Bruce Smith
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SUMMERVILLE – Myrtle Beach police are urging anyone with information about the shooting deaths of three people at a motel during the Atlantic Beach Bikefest to contact them or Crime Stoppers.

Detective Will Kitelinger was joined by family members of the victims at a news conference in Summerville on Wednesday in asking for the public’s help.

Kitelinger says the case is a tough one because the victims were all from the Summerville area and the perpetrators could be from somewhere else in the United States.

Police initially said the slayings might be gang-related, but the detective says he has no information to suggest that.

After a rash of violence in communities near Atlantic Beach during this year’s bike festival, Gov. Nikki Haley called for an end to the annual event.