Deputies make arrests in unrelated murders that happened at same home years apart: Sheriff

Sheriff Hobart Lewis, in the inset, appeared before reporters in a Feb. 16, 2024, press conference, saying that investigators solved two unrelated homicides at this home. (Screenshot: WSPA; inset: Greenville County Sheriff

Sheriff Hobart Lewis, in the inset, appeared before reporters in a Feb. 16, 2024, press conference, saying that investigators solved two unrelated homicides at this home. (Screenshot: WSPA; inset: Greenville County Sheriff’s Office)

Deputies out of Greenville County, South Carolina, say they’ve made arrests in two unrelated cases that are linked by a remarkable coincidence: They happened at the same home almost six years apart.

First, on April 17, 2016, three people went to the home in the 200 block of Eastview Road in the town of Pelzer, Sheriff Hobart Lewis in a press conference on Friday.

They wounded three people and killed Zachary Whitley, 31, as part of the suspects’ plan to commit a robbery during a drug deal. Now authorities have arrested John Wesley Nix, 34, for the crime, though they have yet to identify the two other suspects, said Lewis.

Lewis described it as something like a “drug deal gone bad.”

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