Six illegal immigrants, ages 13 through 21, charged in connection with a South Carolina mother’s “random” murder earlier this month allegedly texted each other about the crime afterward.
Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputies located Larisha Sharell Thompson, 40, deceased with a gunshot wound behind the wheel of her vehicle on Riverside Road in Lancaster, located about an hour south of Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 2.
On May 12, authorities announced the arrests of Asael Aminadas Torres-Chirinos, 21; Jarby Ardon Ramos-Odari, 18; Jeyson Sobied Pineda-Salgado, 17; and three juveniles, ages 13, 14 and 15, in connection with Thompson’s death and a separate burglary that occurred on April 30.
Sixth Circuit Deputy Solicitor Melissa McGinnis said all six suspects charged admitted to robbing a car during a May 14 hearing, as The Rock Hill Herald first reported.
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Sheriff’s deputies located Larisha Sharell Thompson, 40, deceased behind the wheel of her vehicle in Lancaster, located about an hour south of Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 2. (Crawford Funeral Homes)
In text messages allegedly exchanged between the suspects after Thompson’s murder, they apparently used the phrases “mission fail” and “this is just the beginning,” Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Justin Weiland testified on May 14, as the Herald reported.
“The text messages that have been cited in open court show a complete lack of remorse by the defendants,” former South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon told Fox News Digital. “So, the evidence indicates… clearly, a premeditated plan. Then, after the murder is accomplished, there’s just no remorse whatsoever or any regret expressed by any of them for murdering this innocent lady.”
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Condon added that while the defendants in this case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, it is “really hard to understand how a human could do that to another human.”
“[T]he fact that we’ve allowed illegal immigrants into this state to commit such crimes shouldn’t have happened.”— Charlie Condon, former South Carolina AG
“But… it’s happened here in South Carolina, and the fact that we’ve allowed illegal immigrants into this state to commit such crimes shouldn’t have happened. It has happened,” he said. “They’re here. But I’m hoping the family…can take some comfort in the fact that the local authorities are prosecuting this case so vigorously so that there might be some measure of justice coming their way.”
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department said Torres-Chirinos allegedly pulled the trigger.
Defense attorneys for the juvenile defendants, Matthew Niemiec and Mark Grier, said the suspects were coerced into the alleged crime. Prosecutors described Torres-Chirinos as the “ringleader” of the group, according to The Herald. Fox News Digital has reached out to Niemiec and Grier, as well as attorneys for the three adult defendants, including public defender John Freeman and defense attorneys Geoffrey Dunn and Edgar Michael Pinilla.