More noteworthy Waxhaw-related crime

A couple of recent incidents involving Waxhaw residents.

This story has been bouncing around for a while, but here it is. A Waxhaw resident is alleged to have broken into the house of a man who committed suicide. More details here:

YORK COUNTY, SC (WBTV) - York County investigators say a Waxhaw man broke into a house and discovered the owner had committed suicide. But rather than tell anyone, police say he robbed the man and tried to use his credit cards.

Anthony Paul Zanghi was found dead on May 27 in his home on Riverview Terrace in Lake Wylie. Sheriff's deputies went to his home that day because they were investigating a case of credit card fraud.

The coroner's office said Zanghi's death appeared consistent with a suicide, and that he died of an apparent gunshot wound sometime in early 2010.

The sheriff's office said Daniel Edwin Wood, 33, burglarized Zanghi's home during late April 2010 and early May. The sheriff's office said Wood knew that Zanghi's body was in the home during the burglary.

In other news, another Waxhaw resident apparently pointed a BB gun at police officers in Indian Trail and was shot and killed for her trouble. She had been suspected of robbing the Walgreens in Wesley Chapel.

Deputies said 28-year-old Christina Yoryea Michailidis, of Waxhaw, robbed the Walgreens on Weddington Road in Wesley Chapel on Tuesday evening.

At about 8 p.m. Tuesday, deputies said Michailidis pointed a weapon at them in the parking lot of the Sun Valley Commons shopping center in Indian Trail.

Union County Sheriff Eddie Cathey said deputies confronted Michailidis after spotting her in a car matching the description of the getaway vehicle in the pharmacy robbery. When they approached Michailidis, they said she got out of the car and pointed a weapon at one of the officers.

When deputies ordered her to put down the weapon, they said she did not drop it or respond in any way.

Deputies then fired several shots at Michailidis, one of which struck her in the head. She was taken to Carolinas Medical Center Main with serious injuries and died Wednesday.

Read the whole thing here, compliments of WSOC-TV.

An Enquirer-Journal article strongly suggests this might have been a case of suicide by policeman. Full article here (including downloadable 911 calls), but the most interesting part:

Christina Yoryea Michailidis called her mother to say “good-bye” after robbing a drug store Tuesday night.

Less than an hour later, she pointed a gun at deputies who shot her in the parking lot of Sun Valley Commons shopping center Tuesday night, a sheriff’s office release stated.

She died of gunshot wounds at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday.

“I know she has a gun. It’s a BB gun, but it looks like a real handgun. Please tell them not to kill her,” an unidentified caller told 911 at 7:46 p.m.

Michailidis, 28, of 409 Springwood Drive in Waxhaw also told her mother she robbed the Walgreens at 5975 Weddington Road in Wesley Chapel and would take the Oxycontin pills she took from the store, the release stated.

“She took some Oxycontin, 80 milligrams, I gave her a bottle and a half,” an unidentified caller told 911 at 7:17 p.m.