SUMTER, S.C. - More than a month after a packed funeral in South Carolina, officials said six elderly people who were in attendance in March have died from the coronavirus, according to a coroner's office in South Carolina.
Robbie Baker, the Sumter County Coroner, told FOX 57, a married couple from Kershaw County and four people from Sumter County had passed away.
All six were elderly and African-American, he added. The first reported death from the funeral was on March 22. Baker said two days later, an elderly man who attended the same funeral also died.
Within weeks, officials connected the dots. "After talking with my counterpart, Mr. Dave West, the coroner in Kershaw, I found out he had two individuals that were married also that had