In the early hours of a Saturday in Greenville, South Carolina, the life of 23-year-old Jermaine Travez Cureton was tragically cut short. On December 5, 2015, in the parking lot of the Westview Homes public housing complex, Cureton was shot. In the immediate aftermath, two men brought him to St. Francis Hospital. They left him there with a gunshot wound, and he ultimately succumbed to his injuries at the Greenville Hospital System.
The Greenville Police Department quickly launched an
investigation into the shooting. Their efforts led them to identify 18-year-old Angelo Horace Taylor as a suspect in the death of Jermaine Cureton. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office located and arrested Taylor on the same Saturday night of the incident.
Following his arrest, Angelo Horace Taylor was charged with the murder of Jermaine Travez Cureton. The motive and the specific circumstances that led to the fatal encounter in the parking lot were at the center of the subsequent investigation and legal proceedings, leaving a community to grapple with the violent loss of a young man.
