In the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2014, the life of 25-year-old Jamal Justice was tragically cut short in a burst of violence outside a Greenville, South Carolina nightclub. Justice, a male, and another man, 27-year-old Sylvester Fuller, were found with gunshot wounds in the parking lot of a club located on North Pleasantburg Drive, near the Cherrydale shopping area.
The shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m., and despite emergency services being called to the scene, both men succumbed to their injuries right there in the parking lot.
The investigation into the double homicide quickly pointed to a suspect, Bradford Hester Williams, who was 25 years old at the time of the incident. Evidence presented during the subsequent trial revealed a chilling sequence of events. Williams, armed with a. 380 handgun, shot both Justice and Fuller multiple times. Immediately following the shooting, he fled the scene in a gray or silver Cadillac, leaving a scene of chaos and tragedy in his wake. His attempt to evade justice was initially successful, as he was placed on electronic monitoring but managed to remove his ankle monitor and escape from Greenville.
Williams' time as a fugitive was limited, however, as he was later apprehended in Georgia and extradited back to Greenville to stand trial for the murders. In 2017, a Greenville County jury found Bradford Hester Williams guilty on two counts of murder for the deaths of Jamal Justice and Sylvester Fuller. He was also convicted of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. The court handed down the maximum sentence, life in prison without the possibility of parole, ensuring that Williams would be held accountable for his actions. The conviction brought a sense of closure to the families of the two victims, who had waited three years for justice to be served.
