--- description: A white police officer who shot and killed a 68-year-old black man in 2014 in South Carolina was charged with a felony Tuesday. title: South Carolina Officer Charged With Felony for 2014 Shooting of Black Man image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # South Carolina Officer Charged With Felony for 2014 Shooting of Black Man  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Apr 8, 2015 12:36 PM CUT  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Apr 8, 2015 12:36 PM CUT A white police officer who shot and killed a 68-year-old black man last year in South Carolina was charged with a felony Tuesday more than a year after the incident. The officer, 25-year-old Justin Craven, had pursued Ernest Satterwhite in a car chase for 9 miles on Feb. 9, 2014, all the way to Satterwhite’s home. Satterwhite was sitting in his parked car in his driveway when Craven approached and fired repeatedly, [NBC reports](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/walter-scott-shooting/white-cop-justin-craven-charged-felony-ernest-satterwhite-case-n337681 "undefined"). The officer was charged with firing a gun into an occupied vehicle, according to the arrest warrant. The charge came the same day that another South Carolina police officer was [charged with murder](http://time.com/3774788/south-carolina-police-shooting-video/ "undefined") after video emerged of him shooting a fleeing suspect in the back eight times. In 2013, 42 people were shot by police in South Carolina, the [AP](http://news.yahoo.com/sc-cop-indicted-shooting-shrouded-mystery-083958497.html "undefined") reported in September, when the Craven case first went before a grand jury. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3807188/police-felony-shooting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3807188/police-felony-shooting/"},"headline":"South Carolina Officer Charged With Felony for 2014 Shooting of Black Man","datePublished":"2015-04-08T12:36:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:08:54.513Z","description":"The charge came the same day that another South Carolina police officer was charged with murder","url":"https://time.com/3807188/police-felony-shooting/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3807188/police-felony-shooting/","name":"South Carolina Officer Charged With Felony for 2014 Shooting of Black Man"}}]}] ```