2 warrants issued with murder charges in fatal shooting of Bluffton teen

Bluffton Police obtained warrants Sunday to arrest a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old on murder charges in the fatal Friday night shooting of Bluffton High School senior Dwon “DJ” Fields Jr.

Two others were arrested Saturday night and charged with accessory after the fact to a felony or murder.

Warrants accuse Ty Leic Dae Jhon Channeyfield, 17, and Jimmie Green, 19, of charges of murder, two counts of attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

Jayden Lamont Void, 18, of Bluffton, and Shayniah Lemeagan Void, 18, of Orangeburg, were arrested Saturday night on accessory charges. Their bonds have each been set at $1 million, according to Tabor Vaux, an attorney who was present at the hearing on behalf of the Fields family, along with attorney Ryan Mikkelson.

The teens are accused of killing Fields and injuring two other Bluffton High school students in a shooting late Friday night near Bluffton and Hampton parkways, Bluffton police have said.

Fields, a defensive lineman on his school’s varsity football team, died at the scene, authorities said. Kylan Simmons, 18, also a senior on the football team, was treated at a hospital and released Saturday. A third student, 16-year-old EJ Graham, was still hospitalized as of Sunday afternoon.

Officers were dispatched to a single-vehicle accident about 11:30 p.m. Friday and discovered the vehicle had been involved in a shooting, Capt. Joe Babkiewicz with the Bluffton Police Department said.

All three teenagers were in the car, and Bluffton police said someone fired from another vehicle at the victims’ car, which sent the car veering off the road.

This story was originally published March 7, 2021 at 11:13 AM.

Rachel Jones

The Island Packet

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Rachel Jones covers education for the Island Packet and the Beaufort Gazette. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has worked for the Daily Tar Heel and Charlotte Observer. She has won awards from the South Carolina Press Association, Associated College Press and North Carolina College Media Association for feature writing and education reporting.