Suspects in pawn shop murder captured in Tennessee

WBTW STAFF REPORTS
Published: August 2, 2008

U.S. Marshals captured two suspects Saturday wanted in connection with Thee Pawn Shoppe murder in Atlantic Beach.

Jeffrey Ray Jennings, 27, and Brenna Renee Jennings, 29, were identified as a result of the investigation by Horry County Police and warrants were issued for their arrest on Friday. They were considered to be armed and extremely dangerous.

The suspects were captured by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force around noon Saturday in Washington County, Tenn.

The victim of the shooting was 37-year-old Thomas Lane Holcomb.

Police got the call to respond to Thee Pawn Shoppe just before 1 p.m. July 25 after a customer walked into the business and found Holcomb dead, lying in a pool of blood.

Horry County investigators started investigating the murder and tried to use surveillance tapes from the store and near by businesses to help identify a suspect.

On July 26, authorities released a composite sketch of the man investigators think could be the killer, or could know something about the crime.

Holcomb, a Chester, S.C., native, was buried earlier this week back in his hometown, according to friends of Holcomb’s in Atlantic Beach.

If you have any information on the case, you are asked to call the Horry County Police at 843-915-5350 or 843-915-TIPS.