Crime & Safety

Barrels Case Suspect In Custody

John Michael Young charged with two counts of murder, one count of unauthorized removal of a dead body. Another suspect charged as an accessory.

The remaining suspect at large in the case of two bodies found in barrels in Lake Hartwell has been captured.

WYFF 4 reports that John Michael Young was arrested early this morning in Anderson. Young stands charged with two counts of murder and one count of unauthorized removal of a dead body.

Investigators had named Young as a suspect in the case after executing a search warrant on a home on Centerville Road in Anderson.  

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The other suspect named in the case, Shaine David Fischer, was already in custody on unrelated charges.

He is charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of murder.

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The body of 37-year-old Kellie Mitchell was found in a barrel in Lake Hartwell near the I-85 bridge Wednesday afternoon.

The next day, a second body was found in a barrel near the Centerville Road bridge. The body was identified as 52-year-old Tony Lamar McGinnis.

Both were killed from blunt force trauma to the head, investigators said. 


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