In the late summer of 2018, the community of Greer, South Carolina, was shaken by a tragic event that claimed the lives of two young people. On September 18th, firefighters were dispatched to the Poplar Place Apartments in response to a fire. After extinguishing the blaze in a second-floor unit, they made a grim discovery. Inside, they found the bodies of 20-year-old Marquez Dijon Nash and 17-year-old Princell Icess Fuller.
It was soon determined that the fire was not the cause of their deaths; both had been shot. The Greenville County Coroner's Office later confirmed that Nash, a Black male, had sustained multiple gunshot wounds, while Fuller died from a single gunshot to the head.
The investigation into the double homicide quickly led authorities to a person of interest, 25-year-old Tevin Cortez Miller, who was the leaseholder of the apartment where the victims were found. However, the case took another dark turn when Miller was found dead inside a vehicle in Wellford, approximately 10 miles away. His death was the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Law enforcement officials publicly named Miller as the suspect in the murders of Nash and Fuller, theorizing that he had killed them before taking his own life.
Despite the official stance of the police, questions and doubts lingered within the community and among the families of those involved. Investigators were working to understand the relationship between Miller, Nash, and Fuller, a detail that was not immediately clear. Neighbors at the apartment complex reported that Miller lived alone and were puzzled by the presence of the two victims in his apartment. The case, while officially pointing to a murder-suicide, has been described by some as unsolved, with at least one report indicating a belief from Miller's family that he was not responsible for the deaths. The investigation involved the Greer Police Department, the State Law Enforcement Division's arson unit, and the Greenville County Coroner's Office, all working to piece together the tragic sequence of events.
