A South Carolina lady who believed she was shopping for a pet was ambushed by three brutes who fatally shot her, set her physique on fireplace and left her to burn inside a automotive on the facet of the highway.
Dana Marie Kinlaw, 40, was lured to a rural highway in Effingham, South Carolina, on Jan. 22 when she was allegedly killed by 19-year-old Iryanna Jarissa Fleming and 31-year-old Daquinn Taheen Thomas and Nikko Christopher Carraway, in line with the Florence County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Officers consider Kinlaw’s demise was a part of a retaliation homicide for a current killing in neighboring Darlington County, WBMF reported.
Kinlaw was driving with Fleming once they stopped on Atlantic Street close to Springbranch Street in rural woodlands 95 miles east of the state capital in Columbia.
“Supposedly, they went there collectively,” Florence County Sheriff TJ Joye advised the outlet. “Miss Fleming, she was 19 years of age, a buddy of Miss Kinlaw, they usually rode there collectively supposedly to purchase a pet.”
Fleming and Thomas are accused of organising the faux sale for a pooch Kinlaw had been eyeing to steer her to journey to the realm the place they allegedly launched their ambush assault.
Kinlaw, a South Carolina resident, was fatally shot earlier than the suspected killers poured a liquid over her physique and set her on fireplace contained in the automotive, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Deputies had been referred to as to the realm a couple of automotive on fireplace and found the car nonetheless engulfed in flames with a human physique inside.
Florence County Coroner Keith Von Lutcken recognized the stays as Kinlaw’s physique.
Von Lutcken ordered Kinlaw’s physique be despatched to the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston for an post-mortem. The outcomes haven’t been launched.
Fleming and Thomas had been each arrested hours after Kinlaw’s demise and charged with homicide, first-degree arson and possession of a weapon through the fee of a violent crime.
Carraway was arrested on Wednesday and was charged with the identical three crimes as his alleged accomplices.
Officers mentioned the homicide was associated to a different killing 35 miles away in Darlington County and concerned Kinlaw’s son, however didn’t share additional info.
“We consider there was a homicide dedicated in Darlington County, which we made the arrest in Lake Metropolis that connects them to that arrest with Darlington County officers,” Joye advised WBMF. “We really feel that her son was concerned in that indirectly, form, or kind, and we really feel this can be a retaliation to that homicide.”
Each Thomas and Carraway have a laundry listing of felony circumstances in Florence County relationship again so far as 2014, in line with court docket data seen by The Submit.
Thomas confronted a number of tried homicide prices and violent armed theft circumstances.
He was sentenced to 9 months in jail again in March 2025 for possessing a firearm as a convicted felony.
