On the late afternoon of May 18, 2021, a daylight gun battle between two vehicles erupted near West Broad and Milling streets in Darlington, South Carolina. Twenty-four-year-old Rahiem Jaquan Fortune, a Black male, was found fatally wounded after his car stopped in a parking lot on Washington Street near the Washington Square Apartments; the Darlington County Coroner confirmed his death resulted from the shootout.

Darlington Police, with help from the State Law Enforcement Division, investigated the incident. One person, Nicholas Dishawn Johnson, was arrested and charged with accessory after the fact to a felony. Reports do not publicly detail Johnson’s specific role in the events that led to Fortune’s death, and no other arrests or the identities of occupants of the second vehicle have been publicly named.

The central question of who fired the shots that killed Rahiem Fortune and the status of the broader investigation remain unresolved. If anyone has information about the shooting, the vehicles involved, or witnesses from that afternoon, please come forward.