An additional person is now serving a prison sentence in connection to the 2021 drive-by fatal shooting of a five-year-old child in Jasper County, the 14th Circuit Solicitors Office said March 19.
Mittie Scott, of Beaufort, who was 30 years old when she was arrested last April, pled guilty to accessory before the fact to a felony March 12 during Jasper County General Sessions Court. Circuit Court Judge Carmen Mullen accepted Scott’s guilty plea.
Scott received a 10-year prison sentence, suspended to four years to be followed by two years of probation, according to the solicitor’s office.
Mittie Scott
Scott was the second person sentenced in the case involving five-year-old DeAndre Robinson, who was playing with his father Dec. 28, 2021, in the front bedroom of his grandmother’s home when he was fatally struck by gunfire.
Gregory Harris Scott, who was 20 at the time of his sentencing, pled guilty May 8 of last year to the murder of Robinson. Other charges Scott pled guilty to included possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime and discharging a firearm into a dwelling. Scott was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
DeAndre Robinson, 5, died Dec. 28, 2021 after a bullet came through the wall of his grandparent’s home in the Wagon Branch area and struck him while he was jumping on the bed, officials said. Robinson was transported to Coastal Carolina Hospital where he died.
Trasi Campbell, of the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, prosecuted the case.
“Neither Gregory nor Mittie had any prior criminal records to this date, but decisions they made that day (the day that Robinson was murdered), those decisions led to both of them being arrested, to both of them being convicted of their part in this, and both of them going to prison,” Campbell said.
Mittie Scott is the sister of Gregory Harris Scott and had once lived next door to the home involved in the drive-by shooting on Wagon Branch Loop with Robinson’s uncle. Evidence gathered during the investigation, the solicitor’s office said, led to Mittie Scott’s charges after it was discovered she tried to help her brother elude law enforcement after the shooting.
“Nothing can ever return DeAndre to his family or repair their shattered hearts, but I think the convictions for both Gregory Harris Scott and for Mittie Scott provide justice for DeAndre and for his family,” Campbell said.
This article originally appeared on Bluffton Today: Beaufort woman receives four-year sentence after 2021 fatal shooting
