CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Nearly 48 hours after S.C. Law Enforcement Division agents filed multiple felony charges against the teenager accused of murdering another teen during a festival Friday night, the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office will not release a public record connected to the case.
A SLED agent photographs evidence following the shooting death of a 17-year-old Pageland boy on July 18, 2025. The shooting happened on the opening night of the Watermelon Festival. (WJZY Photo/Jody Barr)SLED agents charged Jayden Jeremiah Jeffries, 17, with shooting and killing Sean Davis, 17, in the middle of the Pageland Watermelon Festival. The shooting happened following a "verbal altercation" between Jeffries and the victim, according to the charging documents.
SLED charged Jefferies with murder, possession of a weapon during a deadly crime, and a penalty enhancement for carrying a concealed weapon. Because of the severity of the charges, Jefferies is automatically charged as an adult under South Carolina law.
Saturday afternoon, Queen City news asked Chesterfield County Sheriff Cambo Streater for Jefferies' mugshot, which is a public record. The sheriff instructed our newsroom to contact the county detention center for the mugshot, but the jail refused, claiming that because Jefferies is a "juvenile," the sheriff's office would not release the image.
READ: SLED'S ARREST WARRANTS AND PRESS RELEASE ON WATERMELON FESTIVAL MURDER
mediareleasesDownloadThe sheriff has not explained the delay in releasing this record to the public.
SLED published a public press release over the weekend naming Jefferies as the killer and publishing his arrest warrants, which is further confirmation that the sheriff's office is wrong in its legal rationale for withholding the public record.
Streater still has not released the public record as of this report, despite a Queen City News request filed for it again Monday morning.
SLED agents work to collect evidence following a shooting at the 2025 Pageland Watermelon Festival, where a shooting took the life of a 17-year-old boy at the corner of S. Pearl and McGregor Street. (WJZY Photo/Jody Barr)The arrest warrant shows Jefferies shot the victim with a .22 caliber handgun after he and the victim were involved in an argument. "The defendant stated that he fired the handgun several times at the unarmed victim before fleeing the scene and dropping the handgun at an unknown location," SLED Agent Erin Beasley wrote in the warrant affidavit.
Davis died before reaching the hospital on Friday night.
A bond hearing on Jefferies' charges will happen before a circuit court judge during the next term of general sessions court in Chesterfield County. Jefferies will remain behind bars until then. The date for that bond hearing has not yet been set.
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