Former Charlotte loan officer convicted in 2009 West Ashley gas station murder

  • Allyson Bird
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  • Posted: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:01 a.m.
    UPDATED: Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:59 p.m.
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A Charleston County jury on Friday convicted a former Charlotte loan officer in a 2009 gas station murder that arose from a complicated dispute between families,

Jerome Renaldo Campbell, 37, was found guilty of murder and three counts of assault with intent to kill in a shooting at the BP Kangaroo Express on Old Towne Road in West Ashley that killed 20-year-old Michael German. Circuit Court Judge Deadra Jefferson sentenced him to 30 years in prison on the murder conviction and 10 years on each of the assault with intent to kill convictions.

Campbell is not eligible for parole or early release.

Prosecutors said Campbell and other men drove through German’s apartment complex and made threats with a gun. Witnesses saw Campbell’s car driving past German, his twin brother Anthony and another man named Michael Allen at the gas station.

A bullet ricocheted off the wall of the gas station and struck German in the head. Prosecutors said Campbell might not have fired the fateful shot but that he is as responsible, legally, as the person who did.

Read more in Saturday’s editions of The Post and Courier.