ANDERSON COUNTY — Days before his death, Evens Guillaume contemplated his life with his fiancée Ursula Bogg.

“I said ‘Baby, if today was your last day on Earth, what would you have done differently?’ ” Bogg said. “He told me that he would have liked to have been there physically more for his children and his mother, and that we would have been married long ago.”

But Tuesday was her last day with him. Bogg said she got her last glimpse of him in the morgue of AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson.

“I got to view his body. I got to hold him one last time,” she said.

As she waited for him Monday to pick her up at work, Bogg said she knew something was wrong when she saw her car on the television news.

On Monday afternoon, residents of 136 La Paz St. in Pendleton returned home around 4:50 p.m. to find Bogg’s car and Guillaume’s body in their front yard. News coverage from the air at the scene showed Bogg’s car pulled into the La Paz Street address.

Bogg recognized her car on the television news. She arrived on the scene after 6:30 p.m., and helped police identify Guillaume’s body.

Pronounced dead at the scene, an autopsy on Tuesday morning confirmed that Guillaume had been shot once through the chest, Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore said.

The bullet, Bogg said, her voice crackling with emotion, entered the left side of his body, through his left arm, went through his chest cavity and went out his right side.

Floyd Geer, III, of 107 Amanda Dr., Central was arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting. Geer has been charged with murder and possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime, Anderson County Sheriff David Crenshaw said during a news conference Tuesday.

Anderson County Sheriff David Crenshaw would not release any more information about the crime to avoid compromising the case.

“I can tell you that there is no reason to believe that there is any additional threat to the community,” he said. “We are not looking for any other suspect and we are convinced that the defendant is solely responsible for the victim’s death.”

The motive, he said, would come out at trial.

Geer is scheduled to be arraigned this morning and was in custody in the Anderson County Detention Center on Tuesday night.

Outside the news conference Tuesday, Bogg sat on the second floor of the Sheriff’s office holding pictures of her fiancé.

“He was a good father,” she said. “He was determined to be a part of his kid’s lives.”

Guillaume had four children, she said, three in New York, where he was from, and one in Pennsylvania. Guillaume lived with Bogg in Clemson, she said. They had been together for seven years.

“He helped raise and guide my children,” she said. “He was a leader. He wanted for them what was the best and what was right.”

An ironworker, Guillaume was tough, Bogg said, but inside he was “as soft as silly putty.”

For her, his memory is one of a lot of joking and a lot of laughter.

The two met when she was working for MCI and he got her on the line one day. The two talked for three months before she decided to move to New York to meet him.

Later, the two continued their relationship, though long distance, for another two years. Finally, he moved to South Carolina to be with her.

Bogg said she grew up in Pendleton and knew the residents of the La Paz home for years. Now, she wonders if the family doesn’t know more than it is telling the sheriff’s office.

But, for Guillaume, all she wants is peace.

“I just hope justice is served and my fiancé will be able to rest in peace,” she said. “Everything happens for a reason and God doesn’t make mistakes. There’s a purpose to this. And I know that he will be in heaven, and one day I will meet him there.”