A confrontation during a one-on-one basketball game ended in deadly violence for 28-year-old Tashon S. Grant. The incident took place on July 21, 2020, on a court behind an elementary school on Shadow Lawn Drive in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Witnesses say an argument with 25-year-old Rodney Rivers escalated, Rivers left the court, retrieved a handgun, and returned to shoot Grant. Grant was taken to the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, where he died of his injuries.

Grant worked as a forklift driver at Husqvarna, had graduated from Orangeburg Wilkinson High School, and was a father of two. The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office named Rivers as the suspect; Rivers was arrested and charged with Grant’s murder and held at the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center pending a bond hearing. Private funeral services were held for Grant.

Did anyone see the confrontation on Shadow Lawn Drive or have information about what started the argument?