In the early evening of Wednesday, October 16, 2019, the life of 22-year-old Dewayne Allen Wilson Jr. was tragically cut short in a fatal shooting inside a home on Dawson Drive in Chester, South Carolina. The incident unfolded around 5:30 p.m., shattering the quiet of the neighborhood located near the Chester County Sheriff's Office. Responding to reports of gunfire, law enforcement officers arrived to find Wilson with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The shooting
immediately triggered a large-scale manhunt for the suspected shooter. The Chester Police Department, aided by the Chester County Sheriff's Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division launched an intensive search. A K-9 unit and a SLED helicopter were deployed to scour the area for the individual responsible for Wilson's death. Neighbors reported hearing the gunshots and seeing a man fleeing the scene with a gun.
Within a couple of days, the investigation led to the identification and arrest of a suspect. Brentton Stephon Timmons, 24 years old at the time, was taken into custody and charged with the murder of Dewayne Allen Wilson Jr. Timmons was located along Dawson Drive, not far from where the fatal shooting had occurred. His arrest brought a swift development to a case that had put the community on edge. Court records revealed that at the time of the shooting, Timmons was out on bond for previous unrelated charges.
