3 charged in connection with Lancaster man’s overdose death

LANCASTER COUNTY, S.C. — Three people have been charged after a man was found dead from a drug overdose last year in Lancaster County.

26-year-old Timothy Taylor Wash’s mother reported him missing to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office on Sept. 8, 2019. She said Wash did not return home after work as he usually did.

Two days later, deputies said they found Wash dead from an overdose in the backseat of his Ford Escape in a parking lot on Wylie Street.

Deputies later learned after work, Wash went to a house on South York Street, where he took drugs and became unresponsive. Deana Gibson, 37, Rakevius Nesbit, 31, and Samuel Wright, 31, were all there with him, but did not get him medical help.

Deputies said instead they all loaded him into his SUV and then Gibson and Nesbit drove him to a parking lot and abandoned him him there with the doors closed and windows up.

“First responders answer many overdose calls each week,” Sheriff Barry Faile said. “Far too many of them result in death, but quick medical assistance saves many lives. Unfortunately for Mr. Wash, those who could have gotten him help chose not to do so and left him helpless and alone in his car in the dark of night.”

Deputies have charged all three with kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter.

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