Franklin John Lockett, 41, was shot and killed in Greenville, South Carolina on the afternoon of Friday, October 16, 2020. Around 5:00 PM gunfire erupted at the Berkley Pointe Apartments on Wenwood Road; Lockett was struck while standing in a breezeway, retreated into his apartment, and was later found deceased from a gunshot wound to his torso.

Greenville Police opened a homicide investigation that focused on 18-year-old Yorell Aaron Byrd of Anderson. Ten days after the shooting, Byrd voluntarily met with detectives and, according to police, confessed to shooting Lockett in the breezeway and then running to the back of the building and firing additional shots into Lockett’s apartment. Byrd was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and was booked into the Greenville County Detention Center.

Lockett is remembered as a loving son, brother, father, and friend; he was survived by his mother, his wife Deidra Galindo, and six children. The motive has not been made public. If anyone knew Franklin, saw activity at Berkley Pointe Apartments on October 16, 2020, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.