Black Found Guilty for Playground Execution

Live 5 News
January 10, 2014

Tyrell Collins
Tyrell Collins shot Solomon Chisolm execution style in a playground. Charleston police added Solomon Chisolm to a list of its most hard-core offenders back in 2007 after a string of violent crimes. He more than lived up to the reputation, racking up three murder charges in less than four months during that period. Each time, he managed to avoid prison. Witnesses got scared or changed their stories and cases fell apart, authorities said.Violence followed Chisolm as well. In June 2010, Chisolm was shot in the arm when a truck pulled up beside the car he was driving and pumped more than 30 rounds into the vehicle.His luck ran out Thursday night when Tyrell Collins shot him dead near the bleachers at Mall Playground on Columbus Street.

A Charleston County jury found a 26-year-old man guilty of murder Thursday in a 2011 execution style killing at a downtown Charleston playground.

A judge sentenced Tyrell Collins to life in prison without any chance of parole.

Prosecutors say Collins shot 24-year-old Solomon Chisolm five times at Mall Park Playground on October 27, 2011.

Jurors deliberated 10 hours before deciding on the guilty verdict for Collins.

It was the second attempt to try Collins after his first trial ended in a mistrial in September.

Collins’ brother, 25-year-old Adrian Collins was arrested earlier this week on a charge of intimidating a witness in Tyrel’s trial.