On the evening of January 16, 2021, 17-year-old Tharon Orlando Jackson II was found lying in the roadway on Carver Street in Florence, South Carolina, after police responded to reports of a shooting at about 8:53 p.m. He had suffered a fatal gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Florence County Coroner’s Office confirmed his identity and an autopsy was scheduled at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

Investigators treated the death as a homicide. On March 23, 2021, police arrested 20-year-old Antwan Khyre Javera Holmes in North Carolina and extradited him to Florence; he was booked at the Florence County Detention Center and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Holmes was already facing pending murder and armed robbery charges from a February 2018 incident in Darlington County. The Florence Police Department asked anyone with information about the shooting to come forward.

If anyone knew Tharon, saw activity on Carver Street that night, or has information about the case, please share what is known with investigators.