The Brittain Law Firm

08/30/2021

Exclusive: The changes come after two women drowned while locked in the back a county transport van during Hurricane Florence in 2018.

10/03/2019

The general dictionary definition of a van is a closed wagon used to transport goods, people or animals. In Horry County, it could now go hand-in-hand with the definition of death. Since September of 2018, three people have died while in the back of the County's transport vans. The first two deaths....

08/20/2019

A new lawsuit filed Monday in federal court says former Horry County Sheriff's Department officers all the way up to the sheriff are responsible for the wrongful death of a Shallotte woman. Wendy Newton died drowning in floodwaters in Marion County September 2018 when a prisoner transport van was su...

08/19/2019

Wendy Newton’s family sued Horry County, Sheriff over her death in a transport van. Newton and another mental health patient were transported after Hurricane Florence. The deputies were charged with homicide.

01/17/2019

New photos released by DNR to our media partners The Sun News, show the moments first responders recovered the bodies of two mental health patients who drowned in the back of an Horry County Sheriff's Office transport van. In the days following Hurricane Florence,Wendy Newton, 45, of Shallotte, N. C...

01/17/2019

Allison and Charles Newton's lives forever changed on Sept. 18 when their mother, Wendy Newton,drowned in the back of an Horry County Sheriff's Office transport van. It happened in the days following Hurricane Florence when two Horry County Sheriff’s Office correctional officers drove through....

11/15/2018

The Brittain Law Firm is proud to represent the Newton family in one of the most horrific tragedies South Carolina has ever seen. Here is an article from WMBF News related to the van that Wendy Newton was transported in.

Photos obtained by WMBF News show the Horry County Sheriff’s Office van that was used to transport two mental health patients in September.

11/09/2018

A pair of Horry County Sheriff's deputies passed a barricade and S.C. National Guard checkpoint, and drove through floodwaters near Nichols before their van became submerged and drowned two mental-health

10/22/2018

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08/20/2018

Mary Madison was recently featured in Grand Strand Magazine, "Faces of the Grand Strand" edition: http://grandstrandmag.com/feature/faces_of_the_grand_strand_2018

08/17/2018

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