A fugitive accused of killing a man in Tennessee and trying to pass off the body as someone else’s by calling 911 was found in South Carolina.

Authorities say Nicholas Hamlett killed a man in Tennessee in an attempt to steal his identity, and reported it to police as a bear attack. He was arrested in South Carolina after a weekslong manhunt.

October, Steven Douglas Lloyd of Knoxville was found dead in a staged bear attack that was allegedly linked to Nicholas Wayne Hamlett.

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett pretended to be a man named Brandon Andrade when he dialed 911 around 11:34 p.m. on Oct. 24 and told police he was injured and trapped in a body of water after a bear chased him off a cliff while hiking in Hamilton County, Tennessee, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post at the time.

Nicholas Hamlett was arrested at a Columbia, SC, hospital Nov. 10 after a weekslong search. He is charged with first-degree murder in Monroe County, Tennessee.

Authorities accused Nicholas Wayne Hamlett of killing a man and trying to pass off the body as someone else's.