A Richland County teenager already out on bond for a 2025 attempted murder charge is now accused of stabbing a man to death on Moonglo Circle, then cutting off the court-ordered ankle monitor that was supposed to be tracking him. Jaylon Holmes, 18, was taken into custody Wednesday after a overnight manhunt and booked into a jail that is itself under federal scrutiny for unsafe conditions.
Deputies Find Stabbing Victim Late Tuesday Night
Richland County Sheriff's Department deputies responded to the 30 block of Moonglo Circle at approximately 11:30 p.m. on September 29, finding a male victim with multiple stab wounds to his upper body, according to reporting by Post and Courier. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Moonglo Circle sits in the Dentsville community of Richland County, a short residential street off Parklane Road near Voss Avenue and Frontage Road, per the same outlet.
Investigators identified Holmes as the suspect, and according to WYFF4, he removed his ankle monitor after the stabbing. That monitor had been placed on him as a condition of bond stemming from a prior shooting case. Court records show Holmes had pending charges for attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime tied to a September 2025 arrest, the newspaper's report notes.
Manhunt Ends With Suspect Hiding in a Storage Room
The sheriff's department's fugitive task force and special response team tracked Holmes down the next day, finding him hiding in a storage room at a home in northeast Richland County, according to WYFF4. He was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, then taken to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center, where he is now awaiting a bond hearing.
Cutting off a court-ordered electronic monitor is itself a serious offense in South Carolina. Intentionally removing or tampering with the device is a felony carrying up to five years in prison, a $5,000 fine, and may result in bond revocation, according to a South Carolina legal analysis. Separately, under South Carolina Code § 17-15-270, committing a violent crime while out on bond for a prior violent crime is its own offense punishable by up to five more years behind bars, per the Deaton Law Firm.
A Bond System Under Legislative Pressure
The state's 2023 Bond Reform Act, also known as H. 3532, established stricter bail requirements for repeat violent offenders and set parameters for electronic-monitoring agencies, while authorizing SLED to promulgate regulations, according to the South Carolina Legislature.
It remains unclear whether SLED received an immediate alert when Holmes's monitor was cut, and how quickly a bond hearing will be scheduled under the 2023 violent-offender restrictions.
More recently, in June 2026, Richland County Sheriff's Department deputies arrested the jail's compliance and safety director after discovering facility management had withheld 62 criminal incidents from law enforcement, including an inmate overdose death and a sexual assault, the sheriff's department said. Hoodline previously reported on another recent arrest that led to booking at the same facility in the Columbia Food Lion fetish case.
Holmes's case also echoes a pattern seen elsewhere this year. Hoodline covered a Seattle tagger this week who may face jail time after flaunting a court-ordered monitor in an online video. For now, Holmes remains held without bond as Richland County awaits word on when his hearing will be scheduled.
