RIDGELAND, S.C. (May. 8, 2025) – A Beaufort man is headed to prison for firing several shots into a home in the Wagon Branch area of Jasper County in 2021, killing a 5-year-old boy.
Gregory Harris Scott, 23, pleaded guilty Thursday in Jasper County General Sessions Court to the murder of DeAndre Robinson, who was struck by gunfire while playing with his father in the front bedroom of his grandmother’s home.
Scott also pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime and discharging a firearm into a dwelling. He was sentenced to 30 years.
Trasi Campbell of the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office prosecuted the case.
Scott was to stand trial May 19 but decided to change his plea.
Scott’s sister, Mittie Scott, 30, is charged as an accessory before the fact of murder and as an accessory after the fact of murder. She once lived next door to the house on Wagon Branch Loop with Robinson’s uncle. No trial date has been set for Mittie Scott. She is innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.
On Dec. 28, 2021, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Wagon Branch area of Jasper County after receiving a report of a drive-by shooting. Robinson was shot through the shoulder and chest while jumping on a bed inside the home. His father was in the room with him and covered his son when he heard the gunfire ripping through the house. He then crawled with his son to an area at the rear of the house.
When the gunfire ceased, Robinson’s father realize his son had been shot. Robinson was driven to the Ridgeland Fire Department by his father and grandmother, who also was in the home during the shooting. An ambulance met them there to take the boy to Coastal Carolina Hospital, but Robinson went into cardiac arrest and died en route.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office and the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division Child Fatality Task Force investigated the crime.
Scott had no previous criminal record.
Circuit Court Carmen T. Mullen handed down the sentence.
Campbell is a member of the Career Criminal Unit, which prosecutes the circuit’s most violent and habitual offenders. This team has earned convictions against 514 of the 566 defendants it has prosecuted since its formation in 2009.
