On Christmas Eve 2020, 19-year-old Kevonta Hills and his 43-year-old mother, Marelene Haywood, were found shot to death in their home on Papas Bay Road in Loris, South Carolina. Police were called for a welfare check and determined both had been killed sometime between the late hours of December 23 and the early morning of December 24.

Investigators identified 44-year-old Antonio Long, Haywood’s live-in boyfriend, as a person of interest. Long then fled, taking the teenager with him, drove across the state line and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint before he was captured days later and charged with murder, kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual assault.

Kevonta was a young man whose life ended violently on a family’s holiday. If anyone knew Kevonta, his family, or saw anything around Papas Bay Road on December 23–24, please share information that might help complete the picture.