Charles Richard ’Charlie’ Fulk was 27 when he was found dead from a gunshot wound to the upper body at the Shandon Crossing Apartments on South Beltline Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina, in the early morning hours of April 3, 2021. A native of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he was a Naropa University student and a member of Mt. Hermon United Methodist Church in Graham, North Carolina.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department and the Richland County Coroner’s Office investigated the shooting. Less than a week after Fulk’s body was discovered, investigators arrested 22-year-old Ahmad Cook II during a traffic stop on Interstate 20; Cook was charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime and booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. The motive has not been released.

If anyone knew Charles, witnessed activity at Shandon Crossing Apartments that night, or has information about the events leading to the shooting, please come forward.