Details of Aynor murder plot emerge in court

On Tuesday, 23-year-old Luther Oxendine of Pembroke, NC appeared before a Horry County magistrate to answer to armed robbery and murder charges in connection to the shooting death of 54-year-old Ronald Rabon of Aynor.

Oxendine is one of six charged with killing Rabon after investigators said the group plotted to rob and kill him near Aynor last Thursday morning.

The others charged in the killing are 22-year-old Jamie Dean White of Sellers, 26-year-old Charles Andrew Skipper of Dillon, 23-year-old Paige Skipper Furniss of Hamer, 28-year-old Stacy D. Johnson of Mullins, and 28-year-old Crystal Turner of Marion.

All six face murder and armed robbery with a deadly weapon charges.

The shooting happened on Tobacco Leaf Lane, a dirt road a few miles outside Aynor.

Assistant solicitor, Larry Filiberto told a county magistrate at a hearing Sunday that Tuner was the one who devised the plot to kill Rabon, “We’ve received very reliable information that this particular defendant was the mastermind and the person who brought together this conspiracy.”

Turner was a former Horry County 911 dispatch operator from August 2006 until April 2008.

Investigators said Rabon and one of the women left a bar in Aynor, then drove to Tobacco Leaf Road.

After a few minutes, investigators said the other five suspects arrived and robbed Rabon of his wallet, cell phone, anything else of value that he had on him, then shot him to death.

Prosecutors said it was a calculated, planned attack that ended Rabon’s life, “They tricked the victim into leaving and going to a desolate area at which point they used a deadly weapon, robbed him of his personal property, including his wallet and cell phone and at which point they summarily executed the victim and left his body on the roadway,” Filiberto said.

Two men working on a garbage truck found Rabon’s body around 3:30 Thursday morning lying on the side of the dirt road, according to a county police report.

One of the workers felt Rabon for a pulse, then called for help.

It took county police hours to name a suspect in the killing and following interviews, one suspect led investigators to the remaining five who police said were responsible for the killing.

Then on Friday, Horry County Police arrested all six suspects.

A county judge set bond on Johnson at $100,000 at a hearing Saturday, but a circuit court judge will have to set her bond on the murder charge.

All six suspects remained jailed waiting to have bond set by a circuit court judge, which should happen sometime in September.

Furniss will await her bond hearing in the Georgetown County Detention Center after officers took her from the J. Reuben Long Detention Center Tuesday afternoon.

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