A dispute between neighbors on Trotter’s Road in Anderson, South Carolina, ended in fatal violence in the spring of 2021. On the evening of May 29, 2021, deputies found 44-year-old Richard Chappell with at least one gunshot wound to the chest; emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators quickly focused on a nearby resident. The next day authorities arrested Jeremiah Isaiah Chandler, who lived close to Chappell and had been engaged in an ongoing argument with him. Chandler was charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and booked into the Anderson County Detention Center.

The case centers on whether the long-standing animosity between the neighbors escalated into the deadly confrontation described by witnesses and investigators. Anyone with information about Chappell, Chandler, or the events on Trotter’s Road that night is asked to come forward.