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 aspect of the street.
Dana Marie Kinlaw, 40, was lured to a rural street 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 keeping with the Florence County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Officers imagine 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 Highway close to Springbranch Highway 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 good friend of Miss Kinlaw, and so they rode there collectively supposedly to purchase a pet.”
Fleming and Thomas are accused of establishing the pretend sale for a pooch Kinlaw had been eyeing to influence her to journey to the world 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 stated.
Deputies have been known as to the world 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 have 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 stated 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 imagine 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 ultimately, form, or type, and we really feel this can be a retaliation to that homicide.”
Each Thomas and Carraway have a laundry checklist of prison circumstances in Florence County courting again so far as 2014, in keeping with court docket data seen by The Submit.
Thomas confronted a number of tried homicide costs and violent armed theft circumstances.
He was sentenced to 9 months in jail again in March 2025 for possessing a firearm as a convicted prison.
