One of the drivers involved in the fatal three-car accident on Asheville Highway has been charged.
Trent Matthew Neal, 21, of Campobello, was charged with felony DUI with death. He is being held at Spartanburg County Detention Center.
Troopers were called to the scene of the three-car accident at the intersection of Asheville Highway and Springfield Road at 9:32 a.m. Saturday.
According to South Carolina Highway Patrol reports, Neal ignored a traffic light and hit the vehicle of Khouanexay “Bill” Sivilay, 48, of Evergreen Drive, causing it to hit another car. Neal and Sivilay were both injured and transported to Spartanburg Medical Center. The other driver was unharmed. There were no additional passengers in any of the vehicles.
The Chesnee community is mourning the passing of a teen, who died from injuries received two days after a car crash.
Toby Brooks Cantrell, 16, was injured in a single-vehicle crash on Dec. 21 when his car overturned on McSwain Road near Secondary 186, about 5 miles north of Chesnee. There were no other passengers. South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating the incident.
Cantrell died at Spartanburg Medical Center at 4:37 p.m. on Dec. 23, according to the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office. An autopsy is pending.
Cantrell, of Parris Bridge Road, was a junior at Chesnee High School. He was a member of the school s baseball and football teams, an honor student in the National Beta Club, and attended classes at the Swofford Career Center.
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Happened on Geddes Road Updated: 6:53 PM EST Dec 22, 2020 Anne Newman
Happened on Geddes Road Updated: 6:53 PM EST Dec 22, 2020
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Show Transcript HIS DEATH HAS BEEN RULED ACCIDENTAL. NIGEL: THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY CORONER SAYS A MEDICAL INCIDENT CAUSED A DRIVER TO CRASH. THE CORONER SAYS 79-YEAR-OLD HENRY HARLING, SENIOR, OF SPARTANBURG, DIED AT A HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. HE SAYS THE WRECK HAPPENED ON GETTUS ROAD NEAR ASHEVILLE HIGHWAY AND THAT MR. HARLING WAS THE ONLY P
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Happened on Geddes Road Updated: 6:53 PM EST Dec 22, 2020 Anne Newman
A Spartanburg teenager wanted in connection to the shooting death of a man Thursday afternoon has been arrested.
Spartanburg Police Department Maj. Art Littlejohn said in a statement Jolyne Shamor Nijer Rector-Mills, 17, of 224B James Anderson Lane was arrested in Thomasville, North Carolina early Saturday.
Members of the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office coordinated with other law enforcement agencies in North Carolina to find and arrest Rector-Mills, Littlejohn said.
Rector-Mills is charged with murder in the shooting death of Terrell Antonio Cohen, 40, of Spartanburg. Cohen was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday by the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office.