Karl Williams was 49 and a well-known educator and coach in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He lived on Myers Road in his childhood home, caring for his elderly mother. On the evening of December 14, 2020, just after the family prayer call and shortly before 9 p.m., someone knocked at the front door; when Williams answered, a barrage of gunfire struck him multiple times in the torso. He collapsed inside the doorway and died. His mother, in the living room, witnessed the shooting but was not physically injured. Investigators counted at least 15 rounds fired; bullets struck the house and Williams’s car.

A neighbor saw a white vehicle in the driveway and someone running to it after the shots, a detail later backed by nearby school surveillance. The case produced three arrests: 18-year-old Aloysius Green Jr., 18-year-old Calik Guinyard, and a 16-year-old identified as Sayquan Harrison. Prosecutors said the attack was retaliatory and a case of mistaken identity, the intended target no longer living at the home. A jury found Calik T. Guinyard and Sayquan Harrison guilty of murder; Guinyard received life in prison. As of January 2026, charges against Aloysius Green remained pending after his trial testimony.

Did anyone in Orangeburg know Karl, his family, or have information about that December 2020 night?