George Yea News Today

After killing a man on the East End of Charleston in a June 2023 shooting, George Yea was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum penalty of his plea agreement. In January, Yea, 30, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of wanton endangerment with a firearm, one felony count of owning a firearm as a felon and one misdemeanor count of involuntary manslaughter. Yea killed Tevin Jackson, 21, on June 20, 2023.

Charleston had seven homicides in 2023, down from 13 in 2022. In December alone, Sherry Jean Russell, Ritchie Hancock, 10, and Beverly Hensley were killed in City of Charleston. Kanawha County Sheriffs deputies investigated eight homicides, up from seven last year. South Charleston also had a homicide.

One man is dead after a shooting overnight in Charleston, police say.