Seven years after gunmen forced their way into a home in Holly Hill, South Carolina — leaving four people dead, including two teenagers, and a child wounded — justice arrived quietly in the form of a jury's verdict. Luther Smith, Antly Scott, and Robert Bailey were found guilty on 18 charges following a two-week trial, the culmination of years of investigative work rooted in a robbery prosecutors say was driven by drug activity. The swiftness of the jury's deliberation, just two and a half hours, spoke to the weight of evidence assembled across nearly a decade. For the families who endured tha
Three men convicted in Holly Hill quadruple homicide from 2015
Four people killed including two teenagers (ages 14 and 17); an 8-year-old child was also shot and wounded.
Four people dead, including two teenagers, in a single morning
Mark
Seven years between the crime and conviction—that's a long time. What made this case take so long to resolve?
Mimi
The source doesn't specify what caused the delay. We know the investigation happened, charges were filed, and eventually a trial occurred, but the timeline between those events isn't detailed.
Luke
Right—and that's worth noting. We have the conviction date and the crime date, but nothing about when charges were actually brought, how long the case sat in the system, or whether there were delays in discovery or preliminary hearings.
Mark
So we know three men were convicted on 18 charges. Does that mean each man faced six charges, or were they distributed differently?
Mimi
The source doesn't break down the charges by defendant. It just says collectively they were found guilty on 18 charges.
Luke
That's an important gap. Eighteen charges across three people could mean very different things depending on how they're allocated. One person might face murder charges while another faces robbery or conspiracy.
Mark
The source mentions it was drug-related. How much of the case actually hinged on that connection?
Mimi
The investigators determined robbery was the motive for the break-in, and they characterized it as drug-related. But the source doesn't explain what evidence established that connection or whether it was central to the prosecution's theory.
Luke
That's vague language. "Drug-related" could mean the victims were involved in drugs, the perpetrators were, or both. The source doesn't clarify, so we're left with an official characterization but not the substance behind it.
Mark
And the 8-year-old who survived—do we know anything about their condition or recovery?
Mimi
No. The source only notes that a child was shot and survived. Nothing beyond that.
Luke
Which is actually important information to be missing. A shooting that kills four people and wounds a child is a significant trauma event for a community, but we don't have the human follow-up.
El Pulso
- Four people were killed in a single home invasion — including a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old — and an 8-year-old child was shot and wounded, making this one of the most devastating crimes in the region's recent memory.
- The case sat unresolved for nearly seven years, a prolonged silence that stretched across the lives of grieving families while investigators worked to build a prosecutable case.
- After a two-and-a-half-week trial, jurors needed only two and a half hours to convict all three men — Luther Smith, Antly Scott, and Robert Bailey — on all 18 charges, signaling the strength of the evidence presented.
- The three convicted men now await sentencing, with prosecutors indicating further details about the verdicts will be released in the coming days.
Seven years after gunmen forced their way into a home in Holly Hill, South Carolina — leaving four people dead, including two teenagers, and a child wounded — justice arrived quietly in the form of a jury's verdict. Luther Smith, Antly Scott, and Robert Bailey were found guilty on 18 charges following a two-week trial, the culmination of years of investigative work rooted in a robbery prosecutors say was driven by drug activity. The swiftness of the jury's deliberation, just two and a half hours, spoke to the weight of evidence assembled across nearly a decade. For the families who endured that long interval between loss and accountability, the conviction closes a legal chapter — though it cannot reclaim what a July morning in 2015 took from them.
On a July morning in 2015, armed men broke into a home on Old State Road in Holly Hill, South Carolina. By the time it was over, four people were dead — Shamekia Sanders, 17; Tamara Perry, 14; Jerome Butler, 50; and Krystal Hutto, 28 — and an 8-year-old child had been shot and wounded. Investigators determined the attack was a robbery tied to drug activity.
Nearly seven years passed before the case reached its legal conclusion. This past Wednesday, the First Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office announced that Luther Smith, Antly Scott, and Robert Bailey had each been found guilty on 18 charges following a two-and-a-half-week trial. The jury deliberated for just two and a half hours — a brevity that reflected the depth of evidence the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office had spent years assembling.
Sentencing has yet to be scheduled, and prosecutors have indicated additional details will follow. For the families of the four victims, and for the child who survived, the verdict marks the end of a long legal wait — a measure of accountability, if not a remedy for what was lost.
On a July morning in 2015, gunmen forced their way into a house on Old State Road in Holly Hill, South Carolina. What unfolded in those early hours left four people dead and a child wounded. Seven years later, on Wednesday night, the First Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office announced that three men—Luther Smith, Antly Scott, and Robert Bailey—had been found guilty on 18 charges connected to that shooting.
The victims ranged in age from 14 to 50. Shamekia Sanders was 17. Tamara Perry was 14. Jerome Butler was 50. Krystal Hutto was 28. An 8-year-old in the house was also shot but survived. Investigators determined the break-in was motivated by robbery and was connected to drug activity, though the full scope of what happened that morning remained largely confined to court records and official statements.
The trial lasted two and a half weeks. Jurors deliberated for two and a half hours before reaching their verdicts. The speed of the deliberation suggested the evidence presented to them had been substantial and persuasive. The Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office had conducted the investigation that led to the charges, working through the years between the shooting and the conviction to build a case against the three men.
Smith, Scott, and Bailey now face sentencing. The solicitor's office indicated that additional details about the verdicts would be released in the coming days. For the families of the four people killed—and for the child who survived—the conviction marked a legal endpoint to years of waiting, though it could not restore what was lost on that morning in July 2015.
Citas Notables
Investigators determined the break-in was motivated by robbery and was drug-related— Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office investigation findings
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