Posted on 05/31/2016 10:46:23 AM PDT by Gamecock
Deputies arrested a man on Monday after they say he drowned a woman in the Broad River not far from Interstate 20 on Saturday.
Michael Jason Pate, 33, has been charged with murder, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.
Lindsay McKay Lindsay McKay Facebook Sheriff Leon Lott said in a news release that Pate’s girlfriend called the sheriff’s department at about 8 p.m. Saturday about a drowning.
The Columbia Fire Department recovered the body of Lindsay McKay, 37, at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Richland County Coroner Gary Watts. She was found in the rear of the Pine Valley subdivision, between the Broad River and Broad River Road. Watts said McKay died from drowning.
Pate told McKay they were going to the river to go fishing, Lott said. Investigators believe the two got into an argument, which turned into a physical fight, and ended with McKay’s death.
Pate has been taken to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
The most recent slaying by drowning in Richland County was a murder-suicide in 2014, Watts said. A vehicle traveling from downtown Columbia toward Cayce crashed through the Blossom Street bridge railing and plummeted about 50 feet into the Congaree River, killing two people.
Another drowning case took place in 1997, Watts said, when a man threw a 3-year-old into the Congaree River after killing the child’s mother.
People get greedy when it’s down to the last snort of meth.
So the woman he drowned was not his girl friend and she went fishing with him?
Every now and then I find myself admiring the cold swiftness of the Chinese criminal justice system. This is one of those times.
That is my understanding.
The alleged dead woman and the alleged guy who killed her.
Exactly. This was either a drug deal or prostitution gone wrong.
My sympathies to the deceased, but something is fishy on this one.
I don’t think that her death is merely alleged. It is fact.
This is totally like a horror story.
They need to get the guys girlfriend and question her since she is the one who alerted the police to the murder. She knows what was going on, maybe was a witness.
She was fishing for trouser trout, and he was fishing for tuna.
I’m pretty sure there’s a traditional ballad to this effect.
“Exactly. This was either a drug deal or prostitution gone wrong.”
Wouldn’t his girlfriend get suspicious if his “fishin buddy” was a young woman anyway? Doesn’t seem like the greatest cover story...
That is crude.
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