Jason Wayne Strickland

How they died

Suicide

Lisa Marie Bacon was shot in the head with a handgun by her live-in boyfriend, identified as 32-year-old Jason Wayne Strickland. Investigators believe Strickland rolled Bacon's body up in a sheet, and placed it in the back of his pick-up truck. Officials say they received a call about his reckless driving and chased him until he stopped at the Saluda River near the Riverbanks Zoo. Officers from the Lexington County Sheriff's Department, Columbia Police Department and Richland County Sheriff's Department found Strickland in the parking lot where he abandoned his truck and started walking toward the Saluda River. Despite verbal commands that he return to officers, authorities say Strickland then killed himself in the river.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jason Wayne Strickland, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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