BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) – A Beaufort County jury convicted a 20-year-old Atlanta man in the shooting death of a Bluffton resident who had been giving him and his teenage girlfriend a place to stay.
Jurors found Jeremiah Theodore McGee-Ashton guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of 57-year-old Mark “Tony” Haynes and guilty of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
Records show Bluffton police were called to a home on Buck Island Road around 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2022, where investigators said McGee-Ashton and his 16-year-old girlfriend had been staying…