Clifton James Singletary was a 45-year-old Black man from Sumter County, South Carolina, who died after being shot multiple times on the night of December 15, 2022. Known to family by nicknames including Flip and Sporty Black, he had strong local ties and split time between Sumter and Columbia; police later identified a Brown Street address in Sumter as his home. Witnesses reported gunfire around 8:15 p.m. in the Warren Street area.

Singletary, wounded but still able to walk, made it to a Broad Street hotel where friends took him to Prisma Health Tuomey; he was then transferred to Prisma Health Richland in Columbia and died that same night. Sumter police initially said the shooter and motive were unknown and offered up to a $5,000 reward for information. On February 15, 2023, officers arrested 41-year-old John Ambrose Westley on an unrelated warrant; detectives say Westley admitted to shooting Singletary during an argument outside the Warren Street hotel and charged him with murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and unlawful carry of a weapon.

If anyone knew Clifton, saw activity on Warren Street that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.