A pregnant woman killed one of the three men who tried to rob her before she was shot dead, the sergeant. JT Foster said.
| Anderson Independent Mail
One of the men wanted for the murder of a pregnant Belton woman in February was taken into custody late Wednesday afternoon in Laurens County by agents from the US Marshals Service, according to a spokesman for the County Sheriff’s Office. Anderson.
Sgt. From Sheriff JT Foster’s office said Ronnie Albert Dion Gaddis was arrested at Anderson County Detention Center around 4 pm. Foster said he had no other details of Gaddis’s arrest until 6 pm Wednesday.
Gaddis, 28, of Greenville, is charged with theft and murder, according to arrest warrants obtained Wednesday night by the Independent Mail and The Greenville News.
Gaddis is accused of the death of Sabrina Lowery of Belton.
Lowery, who was 37 weeks pregnant, was shot on February 13 when three men were trying to rob her home in Byron Circle, investigators said.
Lowery killed one of the men, said Foster.
Tamell Nash, 33, died at home, according to the Anderson County Coroner’s Office.
Lowery died in surgery at AnMed Health Medical Center shortly after being shot.
Another of the men investigators said was connected to Lowery’s death, Russel Demetrius Leshon Calhoun, was a fugitive for six months, but died on August 1 in Galesburg, Illinois, about 160 miles southwest of Chicago, according to the researchers.
In August: Man wanted for murder of Belton pregnant woman dies in Illinois
According to a Facebook post by the Galesburg Police Department, officers responded to a domestic disturbance in a house on Block 1400 on Day Street and saw a man inside the house with a gun. The man left the back of the house and was confronted by police officers, police said.
“The police ordered the guy to stop and show his hands. Instead, he showed a gun and shot himself,” the police department said in a Facebook post. “The officers immediately called an ambulance and started providing emergency medical treatment. Unfortunately, the male subject was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no other injuries reported.”
Marquis Lamanz Bailey was previously arrested in the case and is accused of being an accomplice before a crime.
According to arrest warrants against Gaddis, he confessed his involvement in Lowery’s death to the family of a “deceased co-defendant”. This was also corroborated by telephone records, according to arrest warrants.
Gaddis is in jail awaiting a bail hearing.