Inmates involved in Sumter jail riot all charged or convicted of violent crimes

Incident reports detailing what happened during a fire and riot at the Sumter County Detention Center last week that led to the temporary escape of a murder suspect reveal the man struck and stabbed a detention officer.
Three Sumter County Sheriff's Office deputies were injured in the riot, and Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis said the escape was the first time an inmate had done so from within the jail, which opened in 2002.
According to the reports obtained by The Sumter Item, Lander Hickman started a fire in his cell on July 25 by lighting his mattress on fire. The 20-year-old was in jail awaiting trial on four armed robbery charges, four counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, two counts of pointing and presenting firearms at a person, one count of kidnapping and one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for a string of robberies of pizza delivery drivers in 2018, including reportedly sexually assaulting a female driver.
When deputies evacuated the inmates because of the fire, Stephen Wayne Stinnette II, 32, punched a 52-year-old deputy in the back of the head and stabbed him with an "unknown object causing a small puncture wound," the reports say.
Stinnette was one of four arrested on May 4, 2018, after a 31-year-old Sumter man was found dead in Lake Marion in April 2018. Jerry Lamars Johnson was shot multiple times in a wooded area of Sumter County and buried twice before being transported to the lake in Orangeburg County, according to previous reports.
When he saw the first attack happen last week, a 41-year-old deputy tried to intervene but was "overrun by multiple inmates and was intentionally knocked down" by Sincere Dinkins, an 18-year-old who was found guilty on July 17 of murdering Vijaykumar Patel in his Save-Mart Grocery store on Manning Avenue in 2017.
Dinkins, Hickman and two other inmates, Jaelon Markell Jackson, 22, and Frank Lamar Wilson, 30, all began striking the deputy while he was on the ground, according to the report.
Jackson is awaiting trial on one charge each of murder, attempted armed robbery, criminal conspiracy and possession of a weapon during a violent crime in connection with the 2018 shooting death of Josh Goodman, a 17-year-old Crestwood High School student. Wilson was in jail on two burglary charges.
Stinnette escaped "during the chaos" by placing part of an inmate uniform over the barbed wire fence to protect himself from the sharp wire.
Once inmates had been evacuated into the yard, 17-year-old Darius Therald Funchess-McClam, who was charged in June in connection to an accidental shooting death of a 19-year-old, attacked a 24-year-old female deputy by striking her "multiple times about the torso and face." Another deputy used his Taser on the teen to restrain him.
After securing all the inmates and locking down the pod, it was discovered Hickman had damaged the fire alarm in his cell by standing on the toilet and pulling the wiring from it.