Friday, January 30, 2026 - A South Carolina woman who believed she was buying a puppy was ambushed by three people who f@tally shot her, set her body on fire and left her to burn inside a car on the side of the road.
Dana Marie Kinlaw, 40, was lured to a rural road in
Effingham, South Carolina, on Jan. 22.
On getting there, she was allegedly k!lled by 19-year-old
Iryanna Jarissa Fleming and 31-year-old Daquinn Taheen Thomas and Nikko
Christopher Carraway, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s
Office.
Officials believe Kinlaw’s de@th was part of a retaliation
murd£r for a recent k!lling in neighboring Darlington County, WBMF
reported.
Kinlaw was driving with Fleming when they stopped on
Atlantic Road near Springbranch Road in rural woodlands 95 miles east of the
state capital in Columbia.
“Supposedly, they went there together,” Florence County
Sheriff TJ Joye told the outlet. “Miss Fleming, she was 19 years of age, a
friend of Miss Kinlaw, and they rode there together supposedly to buy a
puppy.”
Fleming and Thomas are accused of setting up the fake sale
for a puppy Kinlaw had been eyeing to persuade her to travel to the area where
they allegedly launched their ambush attack.
Kinlaw, a South Carolina resident, was fatally shot before
the suspected k!llers poured a liquid over her body and set her on fire inside
the car, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies were called to the area about a car on fire and discovered the vehicle still engulfed in flames with a human body inside.
Florence County Coroner Keith Von Lutcken identified the
remains as Kinlaw’s body.
Von Lutcken ordered Kinlaw’s body be sent to the Medical
University of South Carolina in Charleston for an autopsy. The results have not
been released.
Fleming and Thomas were both arrested hours after Kinlaw’s
d£ath and charged with murd£r, first-degree arson and possession of a weapon
during the commission of a violent crime.
Carraway was arrested on Wednesday and was charged with the
same three crimes as his alleged accomplices.
Officials said the murd£r was related to another k!lling 35
miles away in Darlington County and involved Kinlaw’s son, but didn’t share
further information.
“We believe there was a murd£r committed in Darlington
County, which we made the arrest in Lake City that connects them to that arrest
with Darlington County officials,” Joye told WBMF. “We feel that her son was
involved in that in some way, shape, or form, and we feel this is a retaliation
to that murd£r.”
Both Thomas and Carraway have a long list of criminal cases
in Florence County dating back as far as 2014, according to court
records.
Thomas faced multiple attempted murd£r charges and violent
armed robbery cases. He was sentenced to 9 months in prison back in March 2025
for possessing a firearm as a convicted criminal.
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