Man Gets 40 Years For 2014 Beulah Murder

August 25, 2016

An Escambia County man has been sentenced to four decades in prison for a 2014 murder in Beulah.

Terrance Soles was by Circuit Judge John Miller to 40 years in state prison with 25 years as a minimum mandatory sentence to be served day for day. On June 3, Soles was convicted by an Escambia County jury of second degree murder for the killing of Skky Shine.

On November 10, 2014, Soles was driving a white Toyota Avalon with the victim Skky Shine in the front passenger seat. Soles made a 911 phone call at approximately 1:30 a.m., and in that phone call Soles can be heard telling the victim, Shine to put his hands on the dash and not to move. Before the call ends, victim Shine can be heard saying “don’t shoot me.” Within minutes, Soles calls 911 back requesting law enforcement to his mother’s home and eventually says on that 911 call “we were going through it here in the car and I shot him.”

Sheriff’s  deputies responded to Soles’ mother’s home where Soles drove up flashing his lights and was found to have a 9mm pistol in his lap. The victim, Shine was in the passenger seat with a single gunshot wound to the head.

In the Toyota Avalon, crime scene technicians found one spent 9mm casing and one projectile. FDLE confirmed that the casing was fired from the weapon that the defendant had in his lap. FDLE was also able to identify Shine’se DNA on the 9mm pistol and casing. It was later determined that  Soles purchased the 9mm pistol in 2012 from a dealer in Louisiana. During the autopsy, the Medical Examiner determined that the gun was fired from a close range of two inches or less by the presence and location of gunpowder particles on the victim.

Comments

2 Responses to “Man Gets 40 Years For 2014 Beulah Murder”

  1. Melodies4us on August 26th, 2016 10:01 pm

    The laws should be to protect us. What better mental health will this convict be in , in 25 yrs ?

  2. mike on August 26th, 2016 2:01 am

    wow, out in 25 for point blank murder, makes ya wonder what kinda info mr. soles had to bargain with. i thought murder got ya the death penalty in fla? oh well, the folks that own those privatized prisons need to keep up maintenance on their mansions. :D