The search may have ended for 28-year-old Donovan Lewis, but fears remain high for residents in the Fork Shoals Community.
Lewis, of Rowland, North Carolina, was arrested in 2016 for the murder of his stepmother in Dillon County, according to Capt. Cliff Arnette with the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office.
However, according to Shipp Daniel, the assistant solicitor to the 4thJudicial Circuit, Lewis was found mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Daniel said that Lewis was sent to a mental hospital, but was later recommended by the state’s mental health department to be placed in a step-down facility. That step-down facility was Gregory’s Community Care in Piedmont.