Ruhjanae Gibbs, 21, was found with a gunshot wound on the side of Church Flats Road in Hollywood, South Carolina in the late hours of August 8, 2019, or the early morning of August 9, 2019. Her green Dodge Ram was parked nearby and the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators say Javon Lamar Murray lured Gibbs to his house that night by impersonating a mutual friend in Facebook messages. Phone records reportedly show Murray expressed an intention to commit an armed robbery that evening. Surveillance from Meggett Town Hall captured Gibbs at 10:55 p.m. in her father’s truck with Murray. Prosecutors allege Murray shot Gibbs while she was driving, shot her six times including once to the head, dragged her body into the marsh, and abandoned the truck after leaving the scene. Murray denied knowing Gibbs at one point, but forensic testing of vaginal swabs from Gibbs’s body reportedly matched his DNA.

Javon Lamar Murray later pleaded guilty to Gibbs’s murder and received a 55-year prison sentence. Excerpts read at sentencing included a journal entry in which Gibbs wrote she wanted stability, wealth, happiness, and self-love.

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