RCSD: Deputies make arrest after argument leads to fatal stabbing
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a man tied to a deadly stabbing in a neighborhood in the northern part of the county.
Deputies charged 31-year-old Timothy T. Shells with murder. He was arrested without incident Friday about 11 p.m. by the department’s fugitive task force, a spokesperson for the department said.
Shells is accused of fatally stabbing 55-year-old Dexter Craft.
Deputies were called about 2 p.m. Thursday about an unresponsive man found near the 200 block of Woodcrest Drive, which is in a neighborhood off Fairfield Road about a mile from Interstate 20.
Deputies found Craft dead.
Deputies discovered that Shells and Craft lived in the same home on the 200 Woodcrest block, police said. They had an argument on Thursday that became physical. Shells stabbed Craft during that argument, deputies said.
Deputies booked Shells at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center where he is still jailed. Shells will remained jail unless a circuit court judge grants him bond and the bond is posted.
If found guilty, Shells could be sentenced from 30 years to life in prison.