Khamanti Kennedy is an alleged killer who has been charged with two murders that took place at South Carolina State University
According to police reports Khamanti Kennedy and two others would open fire at South Carolina State University killing 8-year-old Terrell Thomas and 19-year-old Henry Crittington. A third person was injured during the shooting
Police have not said that Khamanti Kennedy was the shooter and they are working on identifying and arresting the two other people in the group
Police have said that Khamanti Kennedy and the two others would enter Hugine Suites, a student residency, the group would leave the residence and head to Kennedy vehicle where they would grab items from the vehicle and returned to Hugine Suites where gunfire would break out shortly afterwards
Police believe the shooting was over a drug deal gone bad
Khamanti Kennedy has been charged with murder
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A teenager was charged with murder on Tuesday after two people were killed and one was injured in a shooting at South Carolina State University, officials said.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division charged 18-year-old Khamanti Kennedy with murder on Tuesday, Feb. 17 for his alleged involvement in the deaths of 18-year-old Terrell Thomas and 19-year-old Henry Crittington.
Thomas and Crittington were shot and killed last week at South Carolina State University, located in Orangeburg between Columbia and Charleston.
School officials said that Crittington and Thomas were not students, but the person injured in the shooting was a student. The injured person had not been identified and their condition was unknown at the time of this writing.
Kennedy was not a student at the school, school officials said. An affidavit from Feb. 17 did not explicitly say Kennedy was the shooter, but did identify him as the only person charged with murder in this case so far.
Officials said the shooting happened at around 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12 inside a room in the Hugine Suites, a student housing complex at South Carolina State University.
Kennedy drove to the university campus with three other people who had not yet been identified, according to the affidavit from South Carolina investigators. The group was seen on surveillance video going into the Hugine Suites together, officials said
The affidavit said that the group later left the student housing complex and walked toward Kennedy’s vehicle to get “items” from it. It was not made clear in the affidavit what the items were.
A short time later, Thomas and Crittington were shot to death and another person was shot and injured, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit said that witnesses reported Kennedy participated in the “purchase of marijuana which led to the shooting.” More specific details about that were not released, as of Tuesday.
Kennedy was allegedly seen running away after the shooting on surveillance video, the affidavit said.
He was booked into the Orangeburg County Detention Center.
No other charges appeared to be made in this case, as of this writing.
Teen accused of killing 2 over marijuana sale in South Carolina State University shooting
