A man was arrested in Shelby this week in connection with a dead body found in South Carolina.

John Lucas Rice, 21, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, has been arrested in a 2021 homicide after human remains were found in a Gaffney, South Carolina yard.

According to the Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller, John Lucas Rice, 21, of Spartanburg, was arrested on Sept. 19, after Cherokee County deputies said he confessed to killing Kevin Scott Brookshire of Chesnee nearly three years ago.

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