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Trey Wright was ecstatic about his new relationship with a cheerleader he had started dating as summer break from school approached, his mother recalls. Unfortunately, following what seemed to be a disagreement, she allegedly orchestrated his murder and even visited him in the hospital before his family was aware of the situation.
Just days after the 16-year-old from South Carolina shared with his family that being with her “felt like a dream come true,” the dream quickly turned into a nightmare. Authorities assert that she arranged for another teen, three years older, to fatally shoot him.
“They knew each other, far as I know, no longer than two months,” his 35-year-old single mother, Ashley Lindsey, told Fox News Digital.
Gianna Kistenmacher, 17, faces charges as an adult, with allegations that she took Devan Raper, 19, to meet Wright, aware that Raper was armed, enraged, and allegedly ready to open fire.
Wright, a dedicated football and baseball athlete, had been employed at a local deer processing center since he was 13, as reported by his mother to Fox News Digital. His employers treated him like family, and she never missed watching his games.
Visitors at the Myrtle Beach pier in South Carolina in a stock image. Nine local teenagers are facing charges related to the shooting death of a 16-year-old from Johnsonville, including his girlfriend. (iStock)
Wright had only started playing football in the eighth grade but quickly excelled, scoring two touchdowns in his debut game. According to his mother, he was set to advance to the next level in the upcoming year.
In general, he was a pleasant and positive young man, she said.
“He didn’t too much care for school, but he still went every day with a smile on his face, because he was a morning person,” she said. “He used to wake up singing, take 30 minutes in the mirror blow-drying his hair, so his little surfer boy flip on the side of his hat was perfect.”
He took his road test young and already had a driver’s license. So his single mom bought him a truck for Christmas, and once he was driving, he was all over the place, she said.
“When I say my kid can go anywhere and never meet a stranger, everywhere he went he was making new friends, getting somebody’s number,” she told Fox News Digital. “I had a woman from Myrtle Beach, Little River, she wrote me after everything happened, and she said, ‘look, me and my husband own a Southern Outfitters store, my daughter met your son over spring break.’ They talked every day, through Snapchat, whatever. She said Trey really touched her heart.”
He also began going to car shows closer to Myrtle Beach, where he met Kistenmacher, Raper and some of the others.
Kistenmacher’s Myrtle Beach-based lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
