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Teen gets 30-year sentence for child’s beating death
written by Staff
Wednesday September 23, 2009
FLORENCE — A jury has convicted a 16-year-old boy accused of beating 5-year-old Florence boy to death after deliberating for about four hours Wednesday afternoon.
Jermaine Mayweathers, who was 15 when the incident happened, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being tried as an adult in connection with the death of Shanquan Pickett.
Shanquan died July 26, 2008, a day after someone struck him about the head and body with a round metal object, according to Florence County Sheriff’s Office reports.
The results of an autopsy performed by a pathologist at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston indicated he died of blunt force trauma, which led authorities to treat his death as a homicide.
Twelfth Circuit Court Judge Ralph King Anderson Jr., who presided over the trial, said no one in the courtroom could speak on Shanquan’s behalf.
“Thankful is the word that I use from the heart, that this 5-year-old occupies a position of an angel in heaven,” he said. “And on behalf of this angel, I pass this sentence today: the defendant is committed to the state Department of Corrections for a term of 30 years.”
Family Court Judge Jerry D. Vinson previously ruled Jermaine would be tried as an adult after a two-day waiver hearing during which he heard testimony from several witnesses and examined an assessment completed by the state Department of Juvenile Justice, Clements said.
Investigators said the abuse that led to Shanquan’s death happened at a Gilbert Drive mobile home in Florence where the 5-year-old had been staying just prior to his death, Florence County Sheriff’s Capt. Brett Camp said shortly after the incident.
Investigators said Shanquan lived at the home with his mother, his brother, his mother’s boyfriend and his son.
Florence County EMS personnel were summoned to the the home at Smith and Smith Mobile Home Park after receiving a call that a child was having trouble breathing, Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said in a previous interview.
When help arrived, Shanquan was found at the home without an adult and could not breathe on his own at all, Boone said.
Shanquan later died after he was taken off a respirator at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, Florence County Coroner M.G. “Bubba” Matthews said in an earlier report.
Teen gets 30-year sentence for child’s beating death
written by Staff
Wednesday September 23, 2009
FLORENCE — A jury has convicted a 16-year-old boy accused of beating 5-year-old Florence boy to death after deliberating for about four hours Wednesday afternoon.
Jermaine Mayweathers, who was 15 when the incident happened, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being tried as an adult in connection with the death of Shanquan Pickett.
Shanquan died July 26, 2008, a day after someone struck him about the head and body with a round metal object, according to Florence County Sheriff’s Office reports.
The results of an autopsy performed by a pathologist at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston indicated he died of blunt force trauma, which led authorities to treat his death as a homicide.
Twelfth Circuit Court Judge Ralph King Anderson Jr., who presided over the trial, said no one in the courtroom could speak on Shanquan’s behalf.
“Thankful is the word that I use from the heart, that this 5-year-old occupies a position of an angel in heaven,” he said. “And on behalf of this angel, I pass this sentence today: the defendant is committed to the state Department of Corrections for a term of 30 years.”
Family Court Judge Jerry D. Vinson previously ruled Jermaine would be tried as an adult after a two-day waiver hearing during which he heard testimony from several witnesses and examined an assessment completed by the state Department of Juvenile Justice, Clements said.
Investigators said the abuse that led to Shanquan’s death happened at a Gilbert Drive mobile home in Florence where the 5-year-old had been staying just prior to his death, Florence County Sheriff’s Capt. Brett Camp said shortly after the incident.
Investigators said Shanquan lived at the home with his mother, his brother, his mother’s boyfriend and his son.
Florence County EMS personnel were summoned to the the home at Smith and Smith Mobile Home Park after receiving a call that a child was having trouble breathing, Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said in a previous interview.
When help arrived, Shanquan was found at the home without an adult and could not breathe on his own at all, Boone said.
Shanquan later died after he was taken off a respirator at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, Florence County Coroner M.G. “Bubba” Matthews said in an earlier report.
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