Crime

Conway teen charged with murder in deadly Carolina Forest shooting

The Horry County Police Department.
The Horry County Police Department. jbell@thesunnews.com

A teen has been charged with murder following a shooting that left one dead in Carolina Forest over Thanksgiving weekend.

Devon Charles Smith, 17, was charged with murder in connection to the incident, according to Horry County police spokesperson Mikayla Moskov.

The shooting took place Nov. 27 in Augusta Plantation off of River Oaks Drive, according to police. EMS personnel arrived on the scene and pronounced one person dead. The name of the victim hasn’t been released by the Horry County coroner’s office.

Smith, of Conway, was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center about 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to online records.

This story was originally published December 2, 2021 at 10:05 AM.

Mary Norkol
The Sun News
Mary Norkol covers education and COVID-19 for The Sun News through Report for America, an initiative which bolsters local news coverage. She joined The Sun News in June 2020 after graduating from Loyola University Chicago, where she was editor-in-chief of the Loyola Phoenix. Norkol has won awards in podcasting, multimedia reporting, in-depth reporting and feature reporting from the South Carolina Press Association and the Illinois College Press Association. While in college, she reported breaking news for the Daily Herald and interned at the Chicago Sun-Times and CBS Chicago.
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