Starting young in South Carolina, 14 year old arrested for murder.

Starting young in South Carolina, 14 year old arrested for murder.



That’s right a 14 year old has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder. He shot and killed his mother who happened to be 8 months pregnant.



Sherryle Terry, 38, was shot several times Sunday night in her Darlington, SC home.

Mom and unborn baby both died on scene. There has not been a lot of other information released, but the 12 year old sister was also shot in the neck. She is expected to survive.

The sister had to play dead after she was shot. She had to wait for her brother to leave the house to move again. No information was released if he will be charged for shooting his sister as well.

It was reported that the baby was not shot but died as a result of the mom dying.

Prosecutors are not wasting any time in this case and have already announced they will seek to have him tried as an adult.

Hopefully they get that request granted. This kid apparently has some serious issues and needs to be dealt with in the most severe manor of the law.

Of course I’m sure some will want to post that he just needs some counseling. I think shooting your pregnant mother and sister is well beyond counseling. This kid has some serious problems and needs to be dealt with in a serious manor.



Now one would want to know what was going on in that household to make a 14 year old think the only answer was to murder two people and shoot his own sister. What was so bad at home to make this happen? I’m sure we will find out soon enough but even as bad as things may have been in his home it certainly did not justify the murder of two people.

I think this will be an interesting case to learn more about.

Police stated they have no motive for this crime and also reported that the 14 year old had not been in trouble with Law Enforcement before this incident.

What a way to start a criminal history. With no criminal history, it was reported that the teen was recently kicked out of his home because he joined a gang. The teen returned home this weekend and was upset that his mom was pregnant. No other information has been released about the background of this household.

Hopefully prosecution will also aggressively seek charges on the gang the teen was able to join. Wonder if this was his was to pay his dues to the gang?

There has been no information about the father or if there was a father in the home.

This is truly a tragedy. I hope and pray the sister does make a full recovery and has some family there in the area for her. I could not imagine being 12 years old and lose all of your immediate family because your brother elected to murder them.
The brother of Sherryle Terry was in the media talking about how much Sherryle loved her family and how they were hoping the baby would be born before November 8th.