BOLO- Earnest T. Bass
The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division sent out an alert Friday to some Upstate residents as deputies continued to search for a man in a violent home invasion.
Deputies are searching for 53-year-old Tracy Glenn Parsons, who they say assaulted two homeowners using a pistol, tied them up and stole their car on Monday. A short time later, a South Carolina Highway Patrol vehicle saw the vehicle and tried to stop Parsons. Deputies said he drove away for a short distance before getting out of his car and running away on foot.
Deputies sent out a reverse 911 call to residents of the south end of Greenwood County to be on the lookout for Parsons, saying they still do not have any confirmed sightings of him.
“I want to catch him, but I actually hope he’s gone so it will settle people down,” Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster told WIS-TV. “It’s quite unsettling to know you’ve got someone with that mentality roaming around.”
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Foster gave more detail about the Monday attack, saying Parsons broke into a man and woman's home on Dennis Dairy Lane, which is about 10 miles from the Silverstreet area of Newberry County, at about 7:30 p.m. Officials said Parsons assaulted the man with a pistol in the front yard and tied him up, before entering the home and assaulting the woman and tying her up as well.
“She had $2 in cash, so he got upset that there wasn’t more money than that,” Sheriff Foster said.
Foster said he took the $2 and the car before heading to a convenience store, where officials were able to pull surveillance footage.
Deputies and the South Carolina Highway Patrol identified the vehicle shortly after, which ended in a foot chase. Deputies reported that Parsons ran into a soybean field and was able to escape the officers.
“We tracked him a good bit of the night and lost the track somewhere near the Saluda River near the Green Acres section,” Foster said.
Deputies attempted to catch him using K-9s and helicopters, but Foster stressed that Parsons has experience hiding in the woods.
“We cannot guarantee that he’s gone,” Foster said. “He has some survivalist mentality. In times when he was wanted before, he lived in the woods for a number of days."
Foster compared Parsons to the fictional character on the 1960s TV sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
"His attitude is kind of the mythological Ernest T. Bass, that he’s kind of wild and runs and hides, although Ernest T. Bass was comical and this guy is dangerous.”
It’s something that’s left many residents feeling unsettled.
“I was real shocked,” Alisa Peeples, a Silver Springs resident, said. “This community is very calm, cool, quiet and laid back. People are very nice.”
Parsons has a long history of larceny and burglary dating back to 2003. He is currently wanted for charges in Laurens County, the town of Whitmire and Parole, Probation and Pardon Services.
Foster said Parsons is not from the area and he didn’t have any connection to the homeowners that he assaulted. Parsons is facing charges for first-degree burglary, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of using a weapon in a crime and a count of auto theft from the home invasion.
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