The witness never showed up in court after Tanikka Graves sent them a threatening message on social media, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department. Getty Images The day her son was ...

Investigators said that on Oct. 7, Tanikka Carnetta Graves, who is the mother of Armonie Freeman, used her son's social media account to intimidate a witness in the case.

Tanikka Pinnix and her daughter weren’t actually supposed to be on the Homestead Grays Bridge on a chilly Thursday morning last month. Pinnix and her teenage daughter, Layla Gooden, took an ...