Bond hearing set for son accused of killing Rock Hill lawyer
The son of Rock Hill criminal defense attorney O. Cyrus Hinton, charged Sunday night with killing his father, is scheduled to be in court for a bond hearing Friday morning to determine if he can be released to attend his father’s funeral.
Osiris Hinton, 23 – who allegedly told police, “I shot my father!” – is charged with murder in a killing that has shocked the York County legal community that knew and worked with Cyrus Hinton, 47, who practiced here for 17 years but lived in Spartanburg.
Hinton’s former law partner and one of his closets friends, Spartanburg lawyer and Spartanburg County Councilman Michael Brown, is representing Hinton’s son in the killing, at least through Friday’s bond hearing.
The hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. in front of visiting Circuit Court Judge R. Scott Sprouse of Walhalla, said Murray Glenn, a spokesman for the Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Spartanburg.
Efforts to reach Brown for comment were unsuccessful Tuesday.
No new details in the case are available, said Lt. Kevin Bobo of the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.
Osiris Hinton had no criminal record before he was charged with his father’s murder.
Cyrus Hinton had been dealing with his son’s behavior and disciplinary issues, said Twana Burris-Alcide, a Rock Hill lawyer and one of Cyrus Hinton’s closest friends in legal circles. Other lawyers who knew Cyrus Hinton also said that he had been dealing with his son’s behavior and mental state, but what effect, if any, those problems had on the killing remains unclear.
Police have not released a motive for the crime. A handgun was recovered at the scene.
Records show that Osiris Hinton had once been a student at Alabama A&M University and a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity – the same fraternity of which his father was a member. Cyrus Hinton continued to be active in alumni work with the fraternity before his death.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
This story was originally published April 14, 2015 at 1:48 PM with the headline "Bond hearing set for son accused of killing Rock Hill lawyer."