Wilson pleased with guilty verdict

By Frank Johnson

Goose Greek Gazette

Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said she is pleased that a Charleston jury quickly returned a guilty verdict for the killer of a Goose Creek High School honors student.

Twenty-three-year-old Dominic Derricotte was sentenced to life in prison for the 2006 murder of Jennifer Skurow, a 32-year-old restaurant manager and resident of Hanahan.

Jurors determined that Skurow, a former GCHS honors student, was fatally shot twice on Oct. 7,. 2006 by Derricote, who had formerly been an employee under Skurow at the Perkins Restaurant at Rivers Avenue and Ashley Phosphate in North Charleston.

Derricote returned to the restaurant in the early morning hours, as Skurow and another employee were closing. He robbed the establishment and shot Skurow in the process, according to the testimony of the employee.

"I'm pleased with the verdict, and that it came quickly," Wilson said of the Jan. 10 decision. "I'm glad that they judge gave the maximum sentence.

"We're very relieved and grateful that the judge saw fit to give a life sentence."