COP OUT: 'Squirrel' jailed while awaiting bond hearing from July shooting ...Middle East

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — More than 70 days ago, Chesterfield County sheriff's deputies and Pageland Police officers booked a man known as "Squirrel" into the Chesterfield County Detention Center.

He's sat there ever since.

PPD charged Da'Vonta (Squirrel) Robinson with witness intimidation following a July 25, 2025, shooting along Evans Mill Road. A home security camera captured the shooting, which showed a female pulling her car over on a side street, and a few seconds later, a second car slowly rolls into the right side of the video frame.

Multiple gunshots popped off, cracking the silence of the midnight air at the intersection of Evans Mill Road and S. Sycamore Street in Pageland.

The female victim, whom we are not identifying in this report over concerns that her life may be in danger, was not injured in the shooting.

The woman said she laid back in the car seat as the shots were fired, expecting to be shot.

She called 911 and drove into downtown Pageland, then hid inside a business's bathroom while she waited to talk to a police officer. The victim told dispatch she recognized the car as Da'Vonta "Squirrel" Robinson, a man she identified as "Ru" in the 911 call.

"Ru" is short for "Ruthless," the victim told dispatch.

PPD dash camera video shows Officer Cameron Lee parking his patrol car in the middle of the street at the intersection of W. McGregor and Maple Street.

The dash camera recording captured the first minute of the exchange. PPD and Chief Dean Short refused to release the body camera recording to Queen City News after multiple attempts to inspect and perhaps copy the recording.

Part of our interest in the recording was PPD's initial handling of the shooting call. Dispatch records show that 17 minutes after the victim's 911 call, the call was closed, and PPD Officers Lee and J. Britt signed off from the scene.

None of the police records provided to us under the S.C. Freedom of Information Act show PPD officers found any of the ballistic evidence that night on scene. In fact, the pair of PPD officers watched a home security camera video recording of the call and saw the approximate location of the shooter's car.

The incident report filed by Lee the following day shows neither Lee nor Britt found any of the shell casings from the nearly 20 shots fired.

"We proceeded to search for shell casings, and after walking the road and checking the grass and nearby areas, no casings were found at that time. Officers cleared the scene," Britt and Lee wrote in their joint incident report.

The following morning, PPD Officer Carson Cutler and First Sergeant Plattenburg went back to the scene and collected multiple shell casings: eight .223 rifle shell casings, a round widely associated with use in AR-15 style rifles, according to Ammunition Depot, a national ammo and tactical gear seller.

PPD also found two .40 caliber pistol shell casings. Officers also collected "camera footage" from one of the homes along Evans Mill Road, but PPD redacted the homeowner's name and the address from the official police report.

We obtained information from a source that PPD officers were out on scene some time between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m., collecting the ballistic evidence the morning after the shooting. PPD reports detailing the collection of the shell casings weren't produced until 11:15 a.m., according to records provided to Queen City News Chief Investigative Reporter Jody Barr under the SCFOIA.

The shell casings were lying unsecured on the shooting scene for somewhere around seven to eight hours following the shooting.

PPD and Chesterfield County sheriff's deputies arrested Squirrel at 1:45 p.m. on July 27 at his home. PPD's reports show law enforcement executed a search warrant on the Bennett Road home and "vehicles" there.

PPD charged Squirrel with witness intimidation, accusing him of messaging the victim on Snapchat, "Don't go to no police saying my f---ing name WTF," according to the arrest warrant. "This was intended to deter the witness by obstructing an active investigation," the warrant stated.

PPD wouldn't find out about a second shooting scene or the shell casings connected to it until July 27—two days after the shooting. Plattenburg found camera recordings from a home security system near Pageland Place Apartments showing "a second shooter walking westbound on Mangum Street."

The video showed that the second shooter, later identified as Jamorris Clark, "firing rounds" at a car investigators believed was Squirrel's car as it sped away from the shooting scene. Plattenburg searched the area where he said he spotted the second shooter and collected "several shell casings in the roadway and in the grass area."

PPD later arrested Clark, known as Jay Man, and charged him with aggravated breach of peace, discharging a firearm into a vehicle, and first-degree assault and battery.

WHO'S "SQUIRREL?"

"But Squirrel, I’m going to do my best to get these charges to go away. I think that it’s, I just don’t think it’s there."

That's what Chesterfield County Sheriff Cambo Streater told Squirrel on Jan. 12, 2024, in a secret audio recording inside Squirrel's Bennett Road home. Streater went to Squirrel's home to meet with his father, Chucky Robinson, to discuss an attempted armed robbery/attempted murder case that his office investigated and later charged Squirrel.

A judge set a $150,000 bond and ordered Squirrel to be monitored via GPS satellites years ago following an attempted murder/attempted armed robbery case from June 6, 2020. The shooting happened along Coon Creek Road in the county.

The monitor is attached to Squirrel's left ankle.

Chesterfield County Sheriff's investigators charged Squirrel with trying to rob and kill Tyreak Adams and Noah Avila following that 2020 shooting. Both Adams and Avila were shot, along with Squirrel. All survived, and Squirrel was later charged while Adams and Avila were listed as victims in the case.

That 2020 shooting prosecution against Squirrel is still pending.

Chucky Robinson secretly audio-recorded the Robinson family's meeting with the sheriff, which he later admitted could likely be used to help provide his son's defense attorney leverage against the state's prosecution.

The recording revealed Sheriff Streater not only criticizing what he thought was a lack of evidence against Squirrel, but it also contained multiple criticisms of his own investigators' work on the case. Streater claimed the "case jacket" he pulled from his investigators' file was insufficient.

"I don’t know what I hadn’t looked at yet. Because I got the case jacket and there’s no video in it, there’s no – it’s about that thick. But, no medicals...no lab reports," Streater told the Robinsons. Streater also criticized what he believed was his investigators' lack of effort to interview Squirrel following the shooting.

Streater admitted he didn't tell either of his investigators he was going to meet with the Robinsons beforehand. Had Streater discussed his meeting with them, he likely would have learned that Squirrel was hospitalized for several days after the shooting and was unable to meet with investigators because of his condition after the shooting.

Investigators later said the Robinsons hired an attorney, and they were unable to conduct an interview with Squirrel.

Streater would later admit to SLED during a criminal investigation into the audio recording that he later learned video recordings did exist, but that he was unaware of them at the time. Those recordings were stored on an external storage system and not in hard copy form in the "case jacket."

Streater told the Robinsons he'd do everything he could to get Squirrel's case moved back to Chesterfield County from the S.C. Attorney General's Office so he could have it reinvestigated.

The Fourth Circuit Solicitor's Office was handling the prosecution of Squirrel for a time following the 2020 shooting, but later determined the office had a conflict of interest and sent the case to the S.C. Attorney General's Office for prosecution. After the Streater recording was made public, including Streater's claims that he had a "friend" on the inside at the AG's office whom he'd ask to help him with the Robinson prosecution.

The SLED investigation found Streater never actually asked the AG investigator to do anything with the case, despite the sheriff telling the Robinsons, "I’ve got a friend of mine on the inside of the AG’s office now, the Attorney General’s Office in Columbia. He’s an investigator, and there ain’t but two there, and I told him – I already talked through the case file. I already told him all the stuff that’s wrong about this case. And he said that fella shouldn’t have been charged. I said, no he shouldn’t have been charged. And he said is there more to this and I said, I can’t find it if we got it.”

The investigator, Matt Ellis, told SLED he never told Sheriff Streater that.

On Feb. 21, 2024, the AG's office sent all the pending "Squirrel" prosecutions to the Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor's office in Horry County for prosecution. SLED also sent its case file of the criminal investigation of the sheriff over the secret recording to Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson for a decision on whether to charge the sheriff.

Part of those pending prosecutions is a 2022 case where Chesterfield County deputies charged Squirrel in connection with an attempted murder at an apartment complex on Airport Road in Pageland.

There were five victims inside the apartment at the time, including two children. Investigators reported finding a bullet hole in a wall six inches above one of the children's heads, where investigators said he was sleeping in bed. The police report documented several other bullet holes inside the apartment.

Investigators charged Squirrel with accessory before the fact of a felony of attempted murder and accessory after the fact to a felony of attempted murder in connection with the April 19, 2022, shooting by "...having knowledge that the crime of discharging a firearm into a dwelling had taken place," according to the arrest warrants filed in the county clerk's office.

Those April 2022 charges are still pending.

Richardson declined charging either Sheriff Cambo Streater or Chucky Robinson, finding "insufficient evidence" that the sheriff committed a crime over what he said in the recording, including obstruction of justice.

Now, 18 months after getting the Da'Vonta "Squirrel" Robinson case file, Richardson's office is still not prepared to take any of the cases to trial or to hold a bond hearing in Squirrel's newest criminal case.

GPS EVIDENCE AND THE CRIME SCENE

Pageland Police Department Investigator Angel Tubbs was assigned the Evans Mill Road shooting case file on July 28 and went to work trying to figure out who fired the shots along Evans Mill Road and what motivated it.

The first step: who spoke with the victim and what did she tell PPD?

Tubbs later found out that Chief Dean Short met with the victim at the police station the day after the shooting and to give a statement, but the case file Tubbs was assigned on Monday morning had no statement in it.

"I came into work on Monday and began looking over the report," Tubbs wrote, "I did not see a statement in the attachments." Tubbs immediately contacted the victim to ask her for another interview about what happened.

The woman met Tubbs at Noon that day, and Tubbs documented her statement for the case file.

Tubbs obtained GPS data from the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office showing Robinson's location, "places him at the incident location of the shooting," Tubbs wrote.

Squirrel was placed on GPS monitoring following the 2020 shooting of Tyreak Adams and Noah Avila. Tubbs was able to use the ankle monitor data to pinpoint Squirrel's movements that night, by the minute.

Tubbs documented Squirrel's GPS location at the Pageland Place Apartments at three different times between 11:50 p.m. and 11:53 p.m. Those GPS locators corroborated the victim's statement to law enforcement that she saw what she believed was Squirrel's car pass by just minutes before the shooting.

Tubbs documented additional GPS locators she said placed Squirrel and his ankle monitor in the crime scene at the time of the shooting, which ended at 11:56:16 p.m. Tubbs documented hearing the shooting at 11:56:21 p.m. — a timestamp from another video recording obtained in her investigation.

Squirrel's car is seen on video again on Evans Mill Road at 11:57:03 p.m.— 33 seconds after the shooting — speeding away from the scene and toward Highway 151.

The victim said she knew Jamorris Clark and Squirrel were arguing at some point before the shooting. The victim was dropping Clark's girlfriend off at the apartments when she spotted the car driving by, then immediately left.

When she turned onto Evans Mill Road, the victim said she passed Squirrel's car, headed toward her in the opposing lane. She didn't know he made a U-turn behind her when she pulled over to try to get her air conditioning working.

While she was distracted, the shots rang out.

SQUIRREL'S CAR 'ALTERED'

In the days following the Pageland Police Department's investigation of the July 25 shooting, investigators tried multiple times to get Chucky Robinson to take his son's car to the Pageland Police Department for investigators to look it over.

Within a week of the shooting, Investigator Angel Tubbs asked PPD administration about obtaining a search warrant for Squirrel's Honda, "to check for damage since C. Robinson hasrepeatedly told her (Lt. Marcia Miller) he was going to bring the car and has failed to do so. Either he was sick and could not bring the car, or the car was in the shop," Tubbs wrote in her report.

"Lt. Miller advised it was time because it did not appear he was going to bring the car, and since we know it was involved in being shot at, it was definitely part of the crime scene," Tubbs wrote.

Investigators believed Jamorris Clark might've shot Squirrel's car as it sped away from the Evans Mill Road shooting on July 25, and wanted to look for evidence of being shot.

It would take 17 days after the shooting before Pageland Police got the Robinsons to bring the car to the police station.

Tubbs made the following entry into her report on August 11, 2025: "Lt. Miller advised she had contacted C. Robinson and advised him she was no longer asking for him to bring the car to the Police Department, she was telling him to bring the car. She stated Robinson then asked her if she had a warrant, and she advised him she did. He advised he needed to call his lawyer, and then he would bring the car."

At 4 p.m., Chucky Robinson's sister, Wendy Robinson, drove Squirrel's car to the PPD, where investigators spent nearly an hour searching and photographing it.

SEE: PAGELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT SEARCH WARRANT PHOTOGRAPHS:

"Nothing was found in the vehicle, but it does appear the vehicle had been altered," Tubbs wrote in her report. PPD documented "the wheel and rims have been changed," and photographed evidence showing the headlight and taillight lenses were "darkened or smoked out." The photographs show paint runs on the lenses.

Investigators found what they believed to be masonry sand thrown all over the inside and trunk of the car.

Search warrant photographs we obtained from the PPD through our open records request show masking tape and torn masking paper left on the underside of the decklid, and a piece of painter's tape still stuck to the backup camera and a rear door handle, which is also documented in the PPD report.

One photograph of a rear door handle shows what investigators believe was a vinyl wrap wrinkled around the edge of a door handle.

"In some areas, it almost appeared as the vehicle was wrapped. The rims on the vehicle were Hyundai rims. The normal tires and rims on the vehicle were chrome and had a shape that did not match the rims that were on the car presently. The headlights and taillights of the vehicle were also different. The headlights and taillights had been sprayed with paint to make them darker," Lt. Marcia Miller wrote in her supplemental report following the search warrant execution.

We asked Chucky Robinson to respond to the PPD assertion that his son's car was altered after the shooting, but Robinson never responded to our request for an interview or to provide a statement to QCN.

The PPD reports show Chucky Robinson admitted Squirrel's car was painted, but it was painted eight months before the shooting. Robinson also admitted to investigators that he changed the rims on his son's car because he wanted to sell the rims, but neither of his two prospective buyers could come up with enough money to buy them.

Robinson told Miller he still had the rims at his home and offered to send pictures of them to investigators, and later did so.

"C. Robinson advised he didn't take the rims off to hide the rims," Lt. Miller wrote in her August 13 report.

SOLICITOR NOT READY TO PROVE ITS CASE

In February 2024, Solicitor Jimmy Richardson and his Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office received all of Da'Vonta "Squirrel" Robinson's pending prosecutions from the S.C. Attorney General's Office, along with the criminal investigation into the Robinsons' secret recording of Sheriff Cambo Streater.

Solicitor Richardson's office had not called Robinson's case for trial by the time he was charged in the Pageland shooting in July 2025.

A Chesterfield County magistrate was set to hold a bond hearing for Squirrel following his July 2025 arrest on the new Pageland Police charges. Instead of setting bond, the judge bound Squirrel's new charges over to have his bond set by a general sessions judge.

Solicitor Richardson's office scheduled a court hearing for Squirrel for Sept. 10, 2025, in Chesterfield County. There, multiple motions concerning Squirrel's old and new cases were set to be heard, as well as bond issues related to the new cases.

But on Sept. 9, just hours before the hearing, it was canceled.

One of the motions, a bond modification, was filed by Robinson's attorney more than a year before the July 25, 2025, shooting and was never called for a hearing by the solicitor's office.

Our court sources tell us part of the reason was that Solicitor Richardson did not assign a prosecutor to the case until two weeks before the Sept. 10 hearing. Because of that, the prosecutor had not yet reviewed the evidence or interviewed pertinent witnesses from the shooting that happened nearly two months earlier.

That also meant Squirrel's defense attorney hadn't received the law enforcement evidence prosecutors planned to use against him, which is typical at the bond setting stage. Bond hearings don't typically deal with probable cause and only deal with a few main areas for judges to consider: imposing a financial guarantee that a defendant will appear for future court proceedings, and whether a defendant may present a risk of flight and a danger to the community.

Bond hearings aren't held for both sides to debate or discover core pieces of evidence related to the case. An explanation for the purposes of bond hearings is detailed in this video from the Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office:

The solicitor and Squirrel's defense attorney agreed to postpone the hearing for 90 days.

We asked Richardson for an interview to confirm exactly when he assigned a prosecutor to the Squirrel cases, but he declined. "I appreciate your questions about his case; however, we are not discussing specifics as it is a pending case in our office. We will be happy to answer any questions regarding times and dates of any future court dates, which we do for every pending case," Richardson's office wrote in a Sept. 11 email to Queen City News Chief Investigative Reporter Jody Barr.

We've tried to maintain a constant check on Robinson's pending cases since they were assigned to Solicitor Richardson's office. In fact, at 12:31 p.m. on July 25, the day of the Evans Mill Road shooting, Barr asked Richardson's office whether they had any hearings planned or a timeline on when prosecutors expected to give Squirrel his day in court.

"We do not have any updates for any hearings planned at this time," Richardson's spokeswoman, Tonya Root, responded in an email. Less than 12 hours later, Pageland Police documented evidence that Squirrel's GPS tracked ankle monitor put him in the middle of Evans Mill Road when shots rang out.

As of today, Squirrel is still sitting in the Chesterfield County Detention Center without a bond set on his new Pageland shooting charges or a trial date set for the other pending attempted murder and accessory before and after the fact cases.

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