Officials said the shooting took place in April 2025.
The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office has released a statement addressing online rumors claiming that an inmate that was injured in a fight at the detention center.
"They took me away from everything that helped me to get and stay sober," Bryan Getchius, who was honoring long-term sobriety at the time of his arrest, told reporters on Wednesday.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office also collected DNA connecting him with the crime, officials said.
A Florida man is suing the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office, alleging he was wrongly arrested after a field drug test on his prescription medication.