A Memorial Day pool party on Seaside Road on St. Helena Island turned deadly late on May 25, 2020. Amid a crowd of more than 100 attendees, 27-year-old Malcolm Moore of Beaufort was shot. First responders arrived around 9:55 p.m.; Moore was taken by Beaufort County EMS to Beaufort Memorial Hospital but died en route from his wounds.

Beaufort County Sheriff’s investigators and the Crime Scene Unit conducted an extensive investigation with many witness interviews. In June 2021 investigators identified two men as responsible; arrest warrants were issued June 9, 2021, charging 22-year-old Tey’Veon Smalls of Ridgeland and 25-year-old James Stafford Jr. of St. Helena with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Smalls was arrested June 23 with assistance from Jasper County and SLED; Stafford turned himself in June 25 and both were held at the Beaufort County Detention Center.

Does anyone who attended the party or who knew Malcolm have information that could help clarify what happened that night?