In the late afternoon of August 4, 2025, the life of 38-year-old Angel Capers, a U.S. Army veteran and mother of three, was tragically cut short in her Summerville, South Carolina home. Deputies from the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of a possible burglary in progress at her residence on Grand View Crossing in the Cane Bay area. Upon their arrival just before 3:30 p.m., they discovered Ms. Capers, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.
The Berkeley County Coroner's Office pronounced her dead at the scene.
In the weeks leading up to her death, Angel Capers had lived in fear for her safety, taking legal steps to protect herself. She had sought and obtained a protection order against her husband, Jeremy Lynelle Hewlett, 40, of Johns Island. Records show that she had reported multiple violations of this order, including unwanted messages and confrontations at her workplace. In an effort to secure her home, she had changed the locks, kept her alarm system armed, and installed cameras.
The investigation into her death quickly pointed to a case of domestic violence. Authorities determined that a man had forcibly entered her home by breaking the glass of a rear door, proceeded upstairs, and shot her multiple times. Within a day of the fatal shooting, investigators identified her estranged husband, Jeremy Lynelle Hewlett, as the primary suspect. With the assistance of the Charleston County Sheriff's Office and the Charleston Police Department, Berkeley County deputies arrested Hewlett.
At the time of the shooting, Hewlett was already a wanted man, with the U.S. Marshals Service actively seeking him on several outstanding warrants. These warrants included charges of criminal solicitation of a minor, violation of a protection order, stalking, and malicious injury to property. Following his arrest for the murder of his wife, Hewlett was booked into the Hill-Finklea Detention Center. He appeared in court the next morning, where a magistrate denied him bond on the murder charge. The tragic death of Angel Capers serves as a grim reminder of the potential dangers of domestic violence.
