Bond hearing for man charged in deadly accident in Surfside Beach

[Murrells Inlet]

My son was hit by a drunk driver and it changed his life forever. He was 20 years old, now he's 30. His quality of life is not one that I would ever wish on anyone. I thank God that Jesus lives within my heart and he has forgiven me of so much, even died for me and you, and I praise his name for giving me a forgiving spirit. Yes, it was tragic and it greatly effected the lives of my entire family. But, ealing with hate and unforgiveness will cause a person and everyone around him to die. I pray for all involved.

[heather martin]

Well, I think its oddly symbolic of how you're not writing your name on the comments.'Anonymous' shows how you totally support what you're saying, way to stand by the word! On a different note, the issue is not of forgiveness but of the blind ignorance you continue to approach the situation with. You want to speak of forgiveness. As if though you will somehow strike a cord in our hearts and we will see how 'good' jeremy can be. Unfortuantely, you strike no cord. Tomorrow is Shay's birthday. A year-to-the-date that he killed them. I write this not with malice on my heart but with worry for another person who is 'good' and does not want to 'intentionally' hurt someone. Your supposed good friend did hurt someone, intentionally. Did it take him 4, thats FOUR, times of drinking and driving to actually wake up? Did he not mean to hurt shanna and savannah when he got behind the wheel of a car and drove when sloshed outside of his already-impaired mind? Do you think he would have stopped had it not been for something like this? No, it took a situation of this magnitude to stop a killer. And to think of forgiveness? What an easy thing to wrap your brain around when its simple-minded. Furthermore, forgiveness from me and the people who have been deeply affected by the deaths is not of concern. Can he forgive himself? I, very fortunately, do not have to live with his guilt and not with him for the rest of my life. I am actually thankful that he was not injured because he has to now spend the rest of his agonizing life thinking...thinking...thinking . The mind is a very powerful thing when fueled by the heart, and you mr. anonymous defend a man who has a lot on his mind! You also speak of not saying things you do not know, but don't be the pot calling the kettle black. You clearly know of the absolute truth and I wish I could meet someone as wise and educated as yourself. I want to refer back to the fact that your name appears as anonymous. Yet again, the irony and hypocracy that drips from it! You do have on true statement in the aforementioned and that is I do not know him. But pay attention to the detail that I have no want in knowing him. I understand you feel our pain, I am not saying that sympathy is not an emotion shared by all. However, its contradictory to say you understand my pain and how writing 'cruel' things about him only angers me and here you're wrong (again). Because see, you dont know me. Do you see the contradiction or should I simplify a little more for you? I am not angered in writing, I am broken-hearted and there is a difference. Anger embodies the wrong characteristics of why I respond to the comments, why I defend the girls. I am broken-hearted. So- the next time you proceed to relate to my emotions and then state how I do not know him so how could I know how he feels. Think, please. You do not know us (the people who hurt) and therefore you do not know our pain or you would stop defending a murderer. Well, I guess Im the lucky one in the situation because I know my friends are beautiful, good people. I don't have to lie and repeatedly tell myself they are in order to engrain the feelings in my heart, the feelings are already there. Happy Birthday Shanna...I love you!

[Cindy]

I have read here that Mr. Nordstrom was good-hearted and "easy going"...so maybe he was too easy going and was, therefore, too negligent of, or cared too little for how his actions could affect others.
The facts are:
1) that drinking and driving is against the law, 2) Mr. Nordstrom drank and drove although he had already been warned in previous situations
3) His irresponsible decision to do so resulted in the death of 2 people and injury to others
4) Consequence should be punishment according to the crime
5) perhaps he must one day be forgiven, but it will never be out of sympathy for Mr. Nordstrom, but rather for the peace of mind of all those hurting from the loss of Savannah/Peaches and Shanna
6) Whether the girls had alcohol that night is irrelevant...they were not driving and did not risk death to others by their actions.

Those of you who know how "good" or "caring" he is, ask yourselves if you would leave your kids with him and let him drive them around town late in the evening... ask yourself if you would even let him just borrow your car for a week ...or would you want to share an apartment with him??
I do not know him and I feel pity for his ignorance and stupidity. I do not think that the girls would expect us to hate him and never forgive him, but I want to see him punished and if his disgrace and punishment can prevent one person from driving drunk, and save at least one life, then so be it.
FACT:
Drive Drunk = Punishment
Drive Drunk + Kill = Worse Punishment...we know that no punishment could ever be enough, but the point is he must be stopped and mild measures did not stop him before....so harder measures must be taken!!!

[Cindy]

oh, yeah....he also ran a red light.....

[Emma]

Everyone hurts. Dont act like you are the only one hurting.Not a day goes by that I dont stop and think about what happened....but you cant turn back the hands of time. As hard as it sounds everything happens for a reason.

[a christian]

Most of the time when a crime of this sort happens, people become angry and do not believe in forgiveness. But if your a true Christian the bible mentions forgiveness numerous of times. Before I got saved a lot of things happened to me. My father was killed by a drunk driver in 1971, I was attacked on two different occasions when I was younger where I was sexually assaulted. 8 members of my family died in 2002 and 2003 including my mother and sister. Everyone who is making all these unforgiven comments, should ask have they ever done anything that needed forgivenes. I forgave everyone of the people who hurt me growing up from the man who killed my father, to the two different occasions where I was sexually assaulted, even to social security and the doctors who kept my mother on life support that could have been prevented. So I am able to walk around with out these things living rent free in my head. I feel the pain that the victims are going through as well as the person being convicted. But think about it, putting this young man in jail for this period of time going to bring those victims back. I look at it this way, he has parents also that love him. Well they did nothing to anyone. So by putting this man in jail is going to hurt his mother and father. But what I think is better solution is for him to be rehabilitated and sentence to speaking at area schools in hopes of reducing this particular type of crime. So remember rather you all forgive him or not, he is forgiven by Jesus when he repents. We are all gods children today, and I hope the victims parents as well as society learns how to forgive

[good friend to nordstrom]

i have just learned about his sentencing here. and as i read all of your blogs. i do feel sorrow for the parents, family and friends of those two girls. i don't know much about this case. but i've been a good friend to jeremy for the last 10 years. the blame is all his. to all the people that are saying he's a wonderful guy and how he influenced your lives. your right he is a good guy, young, mislead but a good heart. but if you really knew jeremy. and if your being honest with yourself, you know the lifestyle he lived and theres a good chance you live the same lifestyle. there is just a point of being responsible. i miss my friend. but HE WAS WRONG. and all his friends and clients out there. i hope you learn from this. don't let your careless actions hurt the innocent.

[OVER IT]

good friend to nordstrom wrote:

i have just learned about his sentencing here. and as i read all of your blogs. i do feel sorrow for the parents, family and friends of those two girls. i don't know much about this case. but i've been a good friend to jeremy for the last 10 years. the blame is all his. to all the people that are saying he's a wonderful guy and how he influenced your lives. your right he is a good guy, young, mislead but a good heart. but if you really knew jeremy. and if your being honest with yourself, you know the lifestyle he lived and theres a good chance you live the same lifestyle. there is just a point of being responsible. i miss my friend. but HE WAS WRONG. and all his friends and clients out there. i hope you learn from this. don't let your careless actions hurt the innocent.

I am glad that one of his friends can recognize that about him. I am sure he is a good guy, but really everysingle person has some kind of good trait to them. It makes it easier knowing that it not just us (Shanna and Peaches friend and family) that think he was REALLY wrong. His friend does too, that just shows what kind of person he really is. I too hope that many people learned from this. I know Jeremy will forever be a changed person from this, but hopefully he can do something constructive with his pain and suffering as well. RIP GIRLS!!!

[BRITTNEY WELCH]

I HAVE KNOWN SHANNA STINES MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE. WE WENT TO PRE-SCHOOL TOGETHER AND WE WE'RE BEST FRIENDS FROM THE BEGINNING. I MISS HER GREATLY, AND STILL THINK OF HER EACH AND EVERYDAY. I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT WENT ON THAT NIGHT WITH WHO OR WHATEVER, BUT ONE THING I DO KNOW IS THAT WE ALL HAVE A CHOICE, AND WHETHER IT BE A GOOD CHOICE OR A BAD CHOICE WE ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES. I DON'T THINK THINK THIS SITUATION NEEDS TO BE PACIFIED AT ALL. WHAT THE GUY DID WAS AGAINST THE LAW NO MATTER WHAT. IT IS WRONG TO DRINK AND DRIVE ITS A STATE LAW AND I'M ALMOST POSITIVE IF THIS WE'RE HIS SISTER, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF FAMILY MEMBER THAT WAS DEAD, HE WOULD WANT PUNISHMENT FOR THE ONE THAT KILLED HER. NO HE MAY NOT HAVE MEANT TO DO IT BUT IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE CHOICES YOU MAKE. AND UNFORTUNETLY HE MADE A WRONG CHOICE AND YES HE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. GOD WILL DEAL WITH HIM IN HIS OWN CERTAIN WAY AND I WILL LEAVE THAT UP TO GOD. I HAVE NO HARSH WORDS TO SAY ABOUT THE GUY BECAUSE I KNOW LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO DRINK AND DRIVE. BUT WE ALL KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES OF IT AND WHOEVER CHOOSES TO DO IT WILL HAVE TO PAY THE CONSEQUENCES. I HOPE JUSTICE IS SERVED BECAUSE I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE HEARTACHE SHANNA'S WONDERFUL PARENTS ARE GOING THROUGH. THAT WAS THEIR ONLY LITTLE GIRL AND THEY WE'RE SO PROUD OF HER AND WHAT SHE HAD BECOME. IT'S NOT LIKE SHANNA WAS YOUR ORDINARY GIRL. SHE HAD A GOOD HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS AND ATTENDED COLLEGE. A VERY SMART GIRL! I KNOW HER PARENTS WANT TO SEE JUSTICE AND NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS THEY WILL ALWAYS THINK OF SHANNA AND MISS HER WONDERFUL PERSONALITY. I LOVE YOU SHANNA I MISS YOU SOO MUCH I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED TO YOU. I LONG TO HEAR YOUR VOICE, AND THE SAD THING IS I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEIN YOU AT MY WEDDING. OH HOW I HURT. MISS YOU! WISH I COULDVE SEEN YOU ONE LAST TIME BEFORE THIS ALL HAPPENED. YOUR BFF FROM NORTH CAROLINA "YOUR FIRST TRUE BEST FRIEND"

[Stevo]

Friends quote:I too knowing Jeremy know what a beautiful person he is and what a positive influence he has had on my life over the years. First off the girls were not so innocent, the 18 year old had a fake id, which means she was using it to get alcoholic drinks. Second of all their 'sober ride' wasn't the kind of influence their parents would have wanted them to be associated with. Also, Jeremy was not on medication and denied knowing the pill was under the seat of his car
Ok first of all Craig, the drive, was a personal good friend to both families! O and for another fact if u drink on pills U R TO MESSED UP TO DRIVE PERIOD! It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure that out! I mean honestly if he was so sorry for what he did then why have prior convictions and prior dui's? Seems to me if he had a problem with drinkin he should of got help! The point is he prob. payed his way out of things and felt like he could of done anything he wanted to! Savannah and Shanna and Craig are personally really good friends to me! After their deaths my friends and I dont do the same things we used to to! Its not the same without them! He took 2 beautiful girls lives who did drink but were smart enough to have a DD! Seems to me Nordstrom, who is 26, is more of a kid then what Savannah and Shanna were! He deserves everything he gets and personally he should get more time. Mainly cause its the prior dui's and convictions also the 2 lives!

[good friend]

well i posted here a year ago after hearing what happened to his sentence and after reading what people's opinions were. none of that matters. people are lost, spirits broken. i just wanted to say i do miss my friend. i worry only bad things can come from a prison sentence, for a kid that didn't truly understand the consequences.
well just thinking of you nordstrom. and it hurts.

[waccamaw class of 2000]

Im glad Jeremy got what he did but l personally wish he had recieved life without parole. l remember when he was busted for drunk driving & taking xanax when we were in either 10th or 11th grade. I was floored to find out how many times he got dui's & never did any time. I mean, how many times does someone get away with the same crime? He killed those girls, whether it was his intention to or not but he did choose to get behind the wheel while he was impaired. There's no sympathy for him, for those of you who choose to pity him I say to you "hope it's not you or your family or friend". Jeremy was lost and found himself an adult, a murderer, a degenerate, rasta- wanna be, waste of life. He did not amount to anything when l knew him and only worsened himself by living the way he chose to. Jail is not enough to bring those two innocent lives he took that night.