On the evening of December 9, 2022, 43-year-old Christopher Tobias Croft Sr. was killed in a drive-by shooting at his home on 1443 Redd Street NW in Aiken, South Carolina. Officers from the Aiken Department of Public Safety found Croft with a fatal gunshot wound; the Aiken County Coroner’s Office pronounced him dead at the scene. A second man was wounded and drove himself to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Croft had been released from prison in June 2022 after serving much of a 15-year sentence for two 2009 shootings and had been arrested in October 2022 on charges including unlawful carrying of a pistol. The Aiken Department of Public Safety, aided by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the coroner’s office, opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for information. No arrests or publicly identified suspects or motive were reported in the initial investigation.

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