Man claimed that his crossbow went off and hit his girlfriend in the head while he was in another room: Police

Inset: Bradley Thompson (Kershaw County Sheriff's Office). Background: Willow Creek Blvd. successful Lugoff, S.C. (Google Maps).

A South Carolina antheral faces a felony complaint aft constabulary said helium claimed his girlfriend took her ain beingness with a crossbow.

Bradley Thompson, 37, was charged with assisting a idiosyncratic successful committing suicide successful transportation with the decease of his girlfriend. According to reporting by section Fox affiliate WACH and section NBC affiliate WIS, deputies from the Kershaw County Sheriff's Office responded to a location successful Lugoff, South Carolina, astir 7:45 p.m. connected Oct. 9 aft receiving reports astir a suicide. When constabulary arrived, they recovered a deceased woman with a crossbow arrow successful her head.

Her boyfriend, Thompson, told constabulary that she had taken her ain life.

According to an incidental study obtained by WIS, Thompson told constabulary that helium and his woman were readying to spell hunting utilizing his crossbow. The mates reportedly got into a fight, and Thompson told constabulary helium near the crossbow successful the bedroom, loaded with an arrow. Thompson claimed to constabulary that helium went into the surviving country and heard the crossbow spell off.

When Thompson went to the chamber to spot what happened, helium claimed helium recovered his woman with the crossbow arrow done her head.

Police said they began an probe into the woman's decease that progressive the Kershaw County Coroner's Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). As the probe progressed, authorities spoke to household members of the woman, who said Thompson has a past of abusing her and her child.

According to online tribunal records, Thompson is besides charged with tattooing a kid nether the property of 18 and cruelty to children. Both cases were filed connected the aforesaid time arsenic the complaint connected with his girlfriend's death, but it is not wide whether the cases are related.

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Thompson turned himself successful to authorities connected Oct. 31 and was booked into the Kershaw County Detention Center. He posted $47,500 enslaved and was released. His adjacent tribunal day was not publically available.

The station Man claimed that his crossbow went disconnected and deed his woman successful the caput portion helium was successful different room: Police archetypal appeared connected Law & Crime.