In late summer 2022 a dispute between two acquaintances in Columbia, South Carolina, ended in the death of 20-year-old Travis K. Sutton Jr. Sutton, a Black male, was shot on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at the North Pointe Estates apartment complex on Ripplemeyer Avenue. Shotspotter detected gunfire and first responders arrived around 3:30 p.m. Officers found Sutton outside an apartment building with a gunshot wound to his upper body; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead the next day, Wednesday, August 24, 2022. The Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford later confirmed his identity.

Investigators identified 19-year-old Kevin Darnell Jowers as the primary suspect and tied him to the scene with ballistic and DNA evidence. Surveillance footage captured a dark-colored 2015 Nissan Altima believed to be linked to the suspect. After a two-month manhunt, Jowers was located at a residence on Springtree Drive and arrested with help from the U.S. Marshals Service; he was booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Was anyone in North Pointe Estates that afternoon who saw Sutton, the Altima, or anything suspicious related to this shooting?