Terrell Sims, 26, was found dead in a creek off Monticello Road in Columbia, South Carolina on January 5, 2022. An autopsy determined he died from multiple gunshot wounds. His partner, 29-year-old Taylor Wardlaw, had reported him missing on December 22, 2021 and publicly urged the community to help find him while organizing a search party.

Police arrested Wardlaw the day after Sims’s body was recovered and charged her with murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime; investigators concluded she fatally shot Sims. A second person, 30-year-old Eddie Brown, was arrested and charged with accessory after the fact for allegedly helping to dispose of the body. Terrell Sims was a father to four children; his family says he had been trying to end the relationship with Wardlaw.

If anyone has information about Sims, his last days, or the events in late December 2021, please come forward.