CLARENDON SUN Camp Happy Days will be back in June You can donate to help children with cancer enjoy a week of fun SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 C1 FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 75 CENTS Sumter man faces murder charge after Marshals arrest him in Texas Service located public information officer for man was found dead about Suspect was wanted for questioning in death and arrested him the department. 1:15 p.m. on Feb. 16 after rail- of Columbia man found by Sumter train tracks in Dallas. He has waived extradition way workers discovered his Simmons was and is expected to be returned body down an embankment BY KAYLA ROBINS der charge. wanted by the po- to Sumter to face a first-de- from railroad tracks at Cook
[email protected] Matthew Tyrell Simmons, lice department gree assault and battery and South streets in Sumter, 27, was the last person report- SIMMONS for questioning in charge. An additional warrant which is behind a neighbor- A Sumter man wanted for ed to have been seen with Ra- the Bostic case was signed Thursday morn- hood off McCrays Mill Road questioning in the February phel Heywood Bostic before and on assault ing, McGirt said, charging and South Guignard Drive. shooting death of his friend he was shot to death, accord- charges stemming from an Simmons with murder in Bos- His family had reported him was apprehended Wednesday ing to the Sumter Police De- unrelated incident in Sumter, tic’s death. in Texas and now faces a mur- partment. The U.S.