YORK COUNTY, S.C. — York County detectives are conducting their sixth homicide investigation of the year after they were called to a home on Azurine Circle in Fort Mill Wednesday.
John Vincent Coddington, 22, who lived at that home, was taken into custody and charged with murder.
Investigators said Coddington hit and kicked 32-year-old Tiffany Williams to death and took her from Fort Mill to Rippling Brooke Road in Chester County where investigators located her burned remains inside a metal barrel.
Coddington hit and kicked Williams to death inside the Fort Mill home they shared together, according to an arrest warrant.
William’s friend thinks she knows why her childhood friend was killed.
“I was just in complete shock,” April Stephenson said. “I just went blank we talk all the time, we're very very close.”
“I think they were just getting to know each other,” Stephenson said. “They might've rushed in and moved in with each other a little too soon.”
Stephenson said she's heard rumors about what may have led to the a violent attack.
“I was told it could've been over jealousy which makes more sense to me because she was so beautiful,” Stephenson said.
John Gum lives just a few doors down from Coddington and believes he's lived there for three or four years.
Williams leaves behind three children.
Gum said he just saw him Thursday morning.
“Couple of friends with him, other than that, didn't really seem to be anything out of the ordinary,” Gum said.
He is being held in the York County Jail without bond.
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