LANCASTER, S.C. — An arrest was made by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office in a homicide that occurred over the weekend.
Sunday morning around 8:30 a. m., deputies were sent to a gravel road off Potter Road near Kirk Air Base. Once there, they found a teenager's body beside who had died from a gunshot wound. Officials said there weren't any vehicles at the scene. Then shortly after, a motorist told the sheriff’s office that a car was found in a ditch.
The victim was later identified as 17-year-old Logan Allen Stacks from Fort Lawn, South Carolina.
Arthur Jeremiah Fisher III, 19, of Lancaster is now in custody charged with murder and grand larceny in the Stacks' death.
According to the sheriff's office, Fisher and Stacks were together Saturday night into Sunday morning, traveling in a 2001 Saturn sedan owned by Stacks’ father.
Around sunrise, Fisher was driving the Saturn with Stacks as a passenger onto Kirk Air Base Road, a gravel road off Potter Road. Then, Fisher stopped the car and the two got out. Fisher fired a handgun at Stacks, shooting and killing him.
Stacks was left beside the road, and Fisher drove the Saturn toward Kershaw until it started having mechanical issues. Then he drove the car into a ditch off the southbound lane of Kershaw-Camden Highway just north of Landmark Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Fisher left on foot, official say, and was found at his home on Sunday afternoon. He was taken to the sheriff’s office for questioning, then taken into custody Sunday evening.
The arrest warrants were served upon him Monday, when he was denied bond.
“This is not over," Sheriff Barry Faile said in a statement. "We still have a several investigators actively pursuing leads and gathering evidence. It is possible that others will be charged with crimes related to the events leading to and following Mr. Stacks’ death. We will release additional information as appropriate as developments occur.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office at 803-283-3388.
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