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.

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.

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.