A former University of South Carolina student is going to prison for decades after recently pleading guilty to a crime connected to the 2020 shooting death of a man who was visiting Columbia, according to the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
On June 23, Zachery Jamell Williams pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in connection to the shooting death of Wesley Colin Brown, the solicitor’s office said in a news release. The Columbia resident was sentenced to 27 years in a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison, according to the release. Williams was credited with nearly 5 years of time served, Richland County court records show.
The victim
Brown, a 26-year-old from Greenville, was in Columbia to attend a wedding in October 2020, both the Columbia Police Department and Richland County Coroner’s Office previously said.
On the morning of Oct. 4, 2020, Brown’s body was discovered in the 1700 block of Senate Street by two people out for a walk, the solicitor’s office said in the release. That’s close to the intersection with Henderson Street, near both the Five Points area and the Horseshoe on the USC campus…