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Tony Medrano was an 18-year-old Hispanic/Latino from Gaffney, South Carolina, who worked with his father in the roofing business and was described by family as a beloved nephew and role model for younger cousins. On Sunday afternoon, August 21, 2022, he was visiting a friend at the Connecticut Village Apartments on East Junior High Road when a vehicle carrying four people pulled into the complex and, witnesses say, opened fire in a drive-by style shooting. Medrano was struck in the chest, found lying in the road, and airlifted to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, where he died later that evening.

The vehicle fled but soon wrecked off nearby Vesta’s Road; all four occupants abandoned the car and ran. Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies located the wrecked vehicle and took one juvenile into custody at the scene. Investigators identified the other three occupants, and within days authorities had arrested all four. Pharrell Jaquan Wilkins, Rejshun Centrel Holmes, Timothy Renardo Dawkins, and another juvenile were charged with murder. At a bond hearing, Medrano’s family urged the judge to keep the defendants jailed; the judge denied bond for all four.

Who in Gaffney might have seen the vehicle arrive at Connecticut Village Apartments that afternoon or can help fill gaps in the timeline?