Kala Brown issued a public statement Tuesday morning after her fiance, Adam Mayson, died of a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest.

"I am heartbroken today over the loss of my fiance," she said in an emailed statement.

"Adam was a true gift from God. He brought me great happiness and comfort during a very dark and difficult time. Building a life together restored my joy and gave me hope for the future.

"I do not know what tomorrow will bring, but I trust Jesus is with me even in the midst of this pain.

"Please join me in praying for God's peace to be upon Adam's family as they, too, are grieving this tragic loss."

Mayson, 34, hurt himself at his home in Piedmont shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, the Greenville County Coroner's Office said. Mayson was taken to a hospital, but during treatment he went into cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead just before midnight, according to the coroner's office.

The manner of death was ruled suicide.

The Greenville County Sheriff's Office and the Coroner's Office said Monday that Mayson's death is under investigation.

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Mayson was engaged to Kala Brown, who gained national attention as the surviving victim of Upstate serial killer Todd Kohlhepp.

Brown was found chained in a shipping container on Kohlhepp’s 96-acre property in Woodruff on Nov. 3, 2016, two months after she and her boyfriend, Charles David Carver, disappeared from their Anderson apartment

Kohlhepp was convicted of killing seven people between 2003 and 2016.

Carver, who was Brown’s boyfriend at the time of her kidnapping, was one of Kohlhepp’s victims. Brown told investigators that she and Carver had come to Kohlhepp’s property to work for him when Kohlhepp shot Carver in the chest and later buried his body nearby.