Canandaigua man charged in shooting death of 6-year-old boy in South Carolina
CANANDAIGUA, NY — One of three men wanted for the murder of a 6-year-old boy in South Carolina was arrested early Monday morning at an address on Saltonstall Street, according to Canandaigua police.
Michael T. Lloyd, 20, of Canandaigua, who was arrested as a fugitive from justice, has an active warrant out of the state of South Carolina for first-degree murder following the drive-by shooting death of Winston Hunter on May 13 in Orangeburg County, police said.
Lloyd was taken into custody without incident, according to Chief Mathew Nielsen. He was subsequently transported to the Ontario County Jail and is awaiting extradition to South Carolina.
Last Friday, a vehicle the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office said was involved in the shooting in South Carolina was located in the town of Palmyra.
A detective and sheriff's investigator followed intelligence on where they could locate the vehicle, which was backing out of a driveway at the time, Nielsen said.
Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenall did not immediately return a call for comment, but he announced on Sunday that Ethan Thorne Anderson, 19, of West Columbia, South Carolina had been taken into custody on Friday to face a charge of murder, three counts of attempted murder and four counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
A 17-year-old whose name was not released has also been charged in the shooting, Ravenall’s post indicated.
“We had law enforcement across the country looking for these suspects, I said we would not stop until we found them,” Ravenall said in the Facebook post on Monday. “A child was retiring for the night after an evening with family and friends. And now he’s gone because of these cowards.”
Ravenall said in the post that some individuals got together and decided to ride to make a buy or robbery of marijuana.
“Now, 6-year-old Winston and his family’s house was shot up accidentally,” Ravenall said.
Ravenell said the investigation is ongoing.
Nielsen said Lloyd’s last address was Canandaigua, but that was not where he was located.
Nielsen praised the work of the sheriff’s investigator and Canandaigua detective, who were given limited information to start with other than a description of a vehicle, Nielsen said.
If one thinks about the number of vehicles being operated around in this area and the difficulty of being able to track one particular vehicle back to an address, Nielsen said that says a lot about the type of police here, their tenacity and their attention to detail to put together good cases.
"They really did do a very good job," Nielsen said. "I couldn’t be prouder that they could help this community in South Carolina."
Ravenall credited their work as well as the New York State Police and the United States Marshals Service for their "tireless efforts" on the investigation here.
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Canandaigua man charged in shooting death in South Carolina
