19 year old arrested in Hilton Head teen’s killing. Police searching for other suspects
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Another suspect was arrested Thursday in connection with the Dec. 23 killing of a Hilton Head Island teenager in a Bluffton church parking lot.
Kionna Michele Ferguson, 19, of Burton, was charged with accessory after the fact to a felony. She was booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center just before 1 a.m., according to the jail log.
The arrest was made as part of the ongoing homicide investigation, Capt. Joe Babkiewicz, spokesperson for the Bluffton Police Department, said. He declined to release any additional information about Ferguson’s arrest, citing the active investigation.
Babkiewicz said Bluffton Police are still searching for other suspects.
The investigation began after Trey Blackshear, 18, was found dead in the driver’s seat of a car parked in the Lord of Life Lutheran Church parking lot along Buckwalter Parkway. He had been shot multiple times.
After the shooting, police say two suspects ran across the street to a gas station then to a bank, where they got into a car and drove away.
Less than a week after the shooting, a 16-year-old male was arrested after turning himself in to law enforcement. His arrest came soon after the Beaufort County Violent Crimes Task Force raided a home on Mink Point Boulevard in the Beaufort area where the car that left the scene of Blackshear’s killing was parked.
During the raid, deputies found more than 20 people inside, seized 10 handguns and several rifles, and narcotics, according to previous reporting.
No motive in the shooting has been released.
This story was originally published January 9, 2020 at 3:24 PM.
