Man, 20, gets 45-year sentence after shooting, killing Beaufort man in a car in 2019
A Beaufort County jury found a 20-year-old man guilty of murder Wednesday afternoon and sentenced him to 45 years in prison, the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said in a press release.
The General Sessions jury determined that Cameron Kim, of Lady’s Island, shot and killed 20-year-old Ethan Bosworth on Waddell Road in Beaufort in November 2019 because he believed him to be a “romantic rival,” according to the press release.
“Cameron Kim was anxious to prove his ‘street cred’ by killing someone, and his belief that his girlfriend had cheated on him with Ethan Bosworth is all the prompting he needed to fulfill that sick fantasy,” 14th Circuit Assistant Solicitor Mary Jones said in the press release.
Kim had been “smoking marijuana” and drinking the night of the shooting, Nov. 22, the press release said. Messages from Bosworth’s cellphone show that the two had arranged to meet and spoke on the phone two minutes before a 911 call came in to report the shooting, the press release said.
Kim shot Bosworth three times through his car’s passenger side window at about 10:15 p.m. A friend who was leaving the same party saw the “aftermath” of the shooting, and another witness heard the gunshots while walking home from the party, the press release said.
After the shooting, Bosworth’s car rolled into a nearby tree and damaged another car parked at a home, according to previous reporting by The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. Officers found Bosworth lying near his car. He was pronounced dead around 11:27 p.m. at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.
Kim remained in custody at the Beaufort County Detention Center as of Wednesday evening.
