On the late afternoon of Friday, September 9, 2022, 30-year-old Vance Lamar Fowler of Elgin, South Carolina, was found at the Hallmark at Truesdell Apartments in Lugoff with fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies from the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office responded to the reported shooting at about 4:50 p.m.

Investigators identified 36-year-old Trevor Polynice Samuel of Lugoff as the person responsible. Samuel fled the apartment complex after the incident but was located and arrested that same evening at about 11 p.m. He was charged with murder and booked into the Kershaw County Detention Center. Fowler’s family has been told there may be questions about the apartment complex’s security and whether inadequate measures contributed to the incident; that possibility could lead to civil action by the family.

Friends and family remembered Fowler as someone who loved the outdoors, especially riding dirt bikes and fishing. Does anyone have information about Fowler, the complex, or the events that evening?