Search for Florence man ends when he walks out of woods

JOHNSONVILLE – The brief search for a missing man, that had started Thursday morning, ended when he walked out of the woods around 4 p.m. Thursday.

Florence County sheriff’s deputies, along with the state Department of Natural Resources officers, had been searching the Johnsonville area around the Great Pee Dee River for him earlier Thursday.

David Allen Kennedy, 23, was reported as last seen about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Florence County Sheriff’s Lt. Brett Camp said.

Kennedy was out fishing with a friend on the Great Pee Dee River in Johnsonville when their boat ran out of gas, Camp said. Kennedy got out and then started drifting down the river.

Officers, along with bloodhounds, began searching early Thursday morning for Kennedy.