EVANS DIED SUDDENLY IN NORTH CAROLINA OVER WEEKEND

One of South Carolina’s top prosecutors died suddenly over the weekend during a trip to North Carolina of unknown causes.

Attorney General Henry McMaster said that Jennifer Evans died “unexpectedly” during a family trip to the mountains. He said he was “devastated” by the sad news.

“If you wanted a class on some area of criminal law, you would go to Jennifer,” McMaster told The State newspaper. “There was nothing too big, too hard for her. I never heard her say anything was too difficult or it would take a lot of work. That wasn’t in her vocabulary.”

Evans, who was only 41 years old, was the head of McMaster’s criminal section and the chief prosecutor for the state grand jury.

She had prosecuted a number of key criminal cases for McMaster’s office that put drug dealers, dog fighters, and con men behind bars.

Most recently, Evans successfully convicted former HomeGold chairman Jack Sterling, who swindled more than 12,000 people out of an estimated $278 million.

Evans is survived by her husband.

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