ROCK HILL, S.C. — A judge will decide if a man from Rock Hill who killed two people in 2019 should be released from a mental hospital.
The two victims, Tim Barber and Robbin Thompson, were brothers-in-law who were going to pick up some cabinets near Rock Hill on June 7, 2019, according to relatives. That’s when they said Jimar Neely attacked them, shooting and killing the pair.
The family said it was a random attack and the two men were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neely was taken into custody the next day after a shootout with deputies, they said.
Neely was tried in court and found not guilty on all charges by reason of insanity in 2022.
Detectives say Neely lives with schizophrenia, and he wasn’t taking his court-ordered medication at the time of the killings.
Our partners at the Rock Hill Herald report that Neely could get moved out of the state mental hospital where he’s been housed since the trial. The state says Neely has the legal right to be released from the mental hospital and placed into a community care facility.
Judge Keith Kelly said he would make his decision soon, according to The Herald.
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