Monday, a 15-year-old was arrested in the case while walking along a Newberry street.
Antonio Henderson, 23, of Newberry, was apprehended at a local home yesterday.
The incident, which left Willie Eddie Hiller, 35, dead, occurred around 9:40 Saturday evening when a teen was leaving an apartment at Palmetto Point on First Street.
When the teen visitor was leaving, the 23-year-old resident being visited noticed half-a-dozen people in the breezeway-one of whom was wearing a mask and had a gun, police report.
As the man went to shut the door to his apartment, the group tried to push its way in.
The apartment resident says that after an attempted robbery several days before, he had begun carrying a pistol. This incident went unreported to police at the time. The man shot at the group.
The bullet hit Hiller, reportedly the masked man, who has several addresses around town including James and Gray streets.
After being shot, Hiller went 50 yards, or so, to Roslyn and First streets before collapsing in a driveway.
Hiller, lying in the driveway, was reported to officers who found him in a pool of blood spreading from a gunshot wound in his chest.
Hiller was taken to Newberry County Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The Palmetto Point victim met with police and confessing his role in Hiller's death, told police two people had tried to rob him “three to four days” earlier, said Police Chief Jackie Swindler.
Police report learning that Hiller, two 13-year-olds and three others had planned the home invasion and robbery.
Police began searching to arrest several people who have now all been charged with attempted first degree burglary, attempted armed robbery and criminal conspiracy.
Jessica Nicole Sligh, 18, of Gray Street, Newberry, and two 13-year-olds were arrested over the weekend.
The two 13-year-olds and 15-year-old are being housed at the Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia.
Sligh and Henderson are being held in the Newberry County Detention Center, and are awaiting bond being set by a circuit court judge. According to state law, anyone charged with first degree burglary must have bond set by a circuit judge instead of a local magistrate due to the seriousness of the crime.
No charges are expected to be filed against the Palmetto Point resident, whose identity is still being shielded by police.
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