HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — The trial date has been pushed again for 2 deputies who have been fired after mental health patients drowned in an Horry County Sheriff’s Workplace van throughout flooding from Hurricane Florence, in response to twelfth Circuit Solicitor Ed Clements.
The trial for Stephen Flood and Joshua Bishop is now scheduled to happen in February 2022. It was initially scheduled for the week of Nov. 8, in response to Clements.
Wendy Haywood Newton and Nicolette Inexperienced, also called Nicolette French died when the Horry County Sheriff’s Workplace van they have been in turned submerged in floodwaters that rose on Freeway 76 in Marion County after Hurricane Florence. Inexperienced and Newton have been being moved from two completely different amenities to McLeod Behavioral Well being in Darlington on the time.
Flood and Bishop have been those in command of the van and a disciplinary report says Flood was the driving force and that he “made a aware determination to drive a transport van round a barricade and into floodwaters (a considerable danger) that resulted within the dying of sufferers after being offered a protected route by supervisors to keep away from floodwaters.”
Each Flood and Bishop have been terminated from the Sheriff’s Workplace in October 2018. They have been indicted by a grand jury in 2019.
The county reached a settlement with the households of each girls in early August.
