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The investigation continues in the death of USC Upstate student and Columbia native, 22-year-old Evan Jeffrey Gaines.
Officials say Gaines was living at Campus Edge Apartments in Spartanburg, where authorities found him with a gunshot wound to the chest March 26th.
On Tuesday, April 2nd, the Spartanburg County Coroner confirmed Gaines was shot one time.
The original 911 call came in as a fall, but authorities found him with a gunshot wound, and he was transported to a hospital where he died at 10:45 that night.
Slain USC Upstate student Evan Gaines mourned and remembered, while questions remain about his death
UPDATE:
All five are charged with murder.
Wright says with the help of Richland and Colleton County deputies his investigators arrested Darryl Wayne Cooley, Cainan Keison Gregory Griffin, Douglas Alexander Wright, Jr., Rodriguez Kentavious Marshall and his brother Antonio K. Marshall.
Sheriff Chuck Wright says for nearly 8 months leads went cold, but detectives didn’t stop investigating.
“Instead of letting it go and hoping something would surface they just kept pressing the issues,” he said.
“We’ve never had a murder on campus,” Peterson said. “We’ve never had a murder close to campus. This was a first and I pray that it’s the last.”
According to the Sheriff, the first break in the case came when investigators got access to cellphone records.
“There’s been 5 people arrested and charged in this young man’s murder,” Wright said during a press conference on Friday.
5 charged in USC Upstate student’s death, sheriff says
Officials say Gaines was living at Campus Edge Apartments in Spartanburg, where authorities found him with a gunshot wound to the chest March 26th.
On Tuesday, April 2nd, the Spartanburg County Coroner confirmed Gaines was shot one time.
The original 911 call came in as a fall, but authorities found him with a gunshot wound, and he was transported to a hospital where he died at 10:45 that night.
Slain USC Upstate student Evan Gaines mourned and remembered, while questions remain about his death
UPDATE:
All five are charged with murder.
Wright says with the help of Richland and Colleton County deputies his investigators arrested Darryl Wayne Cooley, Cainan Keison Gregory Griffin, Douglas Alexander Wright, Jr., Rodriguez Kentavious Marshall and his brother Antonio K. Marshall.
Sheriff Chuck Wright says for nearly 8 months leads went cold, but detectives didn’t stop investigating.
“Instead of letting it go and hoping something would surface they just kept pressing the issues,” he said.
“We’ve never had a murder on campus,” Peterson said. “We’ve never had a murder close to campus. This was a first and I pray that it’s the last.”
According to the Sheriff, the first break in the case came when investigators got access to cellphone records.
“There’s been 5 people arrested and charged in this young man’s murder,” Wright said during a press conference on Friday.
5 charged in USC Upstate student’s death, sheriff says
