A teenage boy will be eligible for parole after 15 years but could face life in prison for the murder of a tobacco shop employee during a robbery earlier this year.
14-year old Bre’juan Williams-Hampton of Charleston pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in September for the shooting death of a Charleston tobacco shop employee. 19-year old Caden Martin of Charleston was shot and killed on Jan. 30 while working at Tobacco & Pipe in the 2000 block of Seventh Avenue in North Charleston. Eyewitness News said Williams-Hampton spoke briefly and quickly to the court before the sentence was imposed. He said he asks himself every day and night why he did what he did but could not come up with an answer. Williams-Hampton will be resentenced on the offense when he turns 18. The judge told him he needed to come up with a plan before then of how he planned to better himself and prove it to the court.