Police solve cold case

By Cindy Landrum  

JULY 21, 2010 10:05 a.m. (0)

Greenville County Sheriff’s investigators say they’ve solved a 6-year-old murder case.

Two men were charged in connection with the shooting death of Curtis Deion Harmon on Aug. 29, 2004.

Michael Edward Hockaday, 33, of 6 B Bentwood Dr., Greenville; and Garcia Zenas Wilson, 31, of 607 Emily Lane, Piedmont, were both charged with murder, according to arrest warrants.

Both men were being held at the Greenville County Detention Center Wednesday without bond.

Harmon was found fatally shot in his vehicle which had wrecked on Thrift Street in Greenville County.

The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit had been working the case since July 2009.

According to a warrant, Hockaday told investigators Harmon was shot by a co-defendant while he was sitting in his 1998 Ford Explorer.

Hockaday, who was already serving a 20-year sentence in state prison for trafficking cocaine, admitted his participation in the death, according to the warrant.

Harmon was shot in the neck with a handgun.

Wilson was arrested at his home Tuesday by officers in Greenville County Sheriff’s Office warrants unit and the U.S. Marshall Fugitive Task Force.