Judge to rule on prosecutor’s request to revoke bond for murder suspect Meagan Jackson

Dennis Bright
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HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A judge is expected to rule “in the next few days” on a request by prosecutors to again revoke the bond of a woman accused in the October 2020 killing of a man in Horry County.

Meagan Jackson and Chris Dontell, who was an Horry County deputy coroner at the time, are facing murder charges in the death of Gregory Vincent Rice.

Jackson, the mother of Rice’s four children, had reported him as missing. Rice’s body was found in the Pee Dee River on Nov. 8, 2020, according to authorities who said he had been shot multiple times.

Jackson was out of jail on home detention when she was arrested last month and returned to the J. Reuben Long Detention Center for allegedly leaving her home in Conway to go to an apartment complex in Murrells Inlet.

At a bond hearing Thursday afternoon, prosecutors said Jackson has “flaunted the rules of home detention” and that there have been reports from residents and bartenders who say they have seen Jackson drinking at local bars and visiting private residents’ homes.

Jackson’s attorney said Thursday that they have cooperated with prosecutors and argued that Jackson has already served her time in jail before trial. He argued that she is no threat to the community but acknowledged that Jackson “needs to pay more attention to the specifics.”

She previously had her bond revoked in 2021 after authorities said a GPS tracker showed her at locations where she wasn’t permitted to be based on her bond.

Dontell is scheduled to go on trial on June 24.

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Dennis Bright is a Digital Producer at News13. He joined the team in May 2021. Dennis is a West Virginia native and a graduate of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Follow Dennis on, Facebook, X, formerly Twitter, and read more of his work here.

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Jackie LiBrizzi is a multimedia journalist at News13. Jackie is originally from Hamilton, New Jersey, and was raised in Piedmont, South Carolina. Jackie joined the News13 team in June 2023 after she graduated as a student-athlete from the University of South Carolina in May 2023. Follow Jackie on X, formerly Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and read more of her work here.

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