On September 26, 1988, 19-year-old Jaime William Wilson walked into Oakdale Elementary in Greenwood and opened fire. Wilson is responsible for one of the first deadly school shootings in the country.
He was armed with a 22-caliber pistol when he started in the cafeteria and moved into a classroom. In the end, Wilson shot 11 innocent people on that day, and two died.
Wilson was the first person sentenced to death under South Carolina’s guilty-but-mentally-ill law. He remains on death row.