Eighteen-year-old Trey Blackshear was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of his car on December 23, 2019, in the early afternoon. He had just graduated from Hilton Head Island High School four days earlier and was described as a promising soccer player with scholarship offers. The body was discovered in the parking lot of the Lord of Life Lutheran Church along Buckwalter Parkway in Bluffton, South Carolina; investigators said the shooting was not connected to the church.

Police say Blackshear had arranged a meeting for a marijuana deal. Two 16-year-old males, later identified as Terrance Wing and Xavier Da’Quan Barnes, entered the backseat and attempted to rob him. During the robbery they opened fire, striking Blackshear in the head and shoulder. A friend in the passenger seat reportedly fired two shots in self-defense. The two suspects fled on foot, reached a light-colored sedan at a nearby credit union, and were driven away.

Terrance Wing and Xavier Da’Quan Barnes were charged with murder and ordered to be tried as adults. Two others, Jaesean Jeffrey Redd, then 20, and Kionna Michele Ferguson, then 19, were charged with accessory after the fact and Ferguson was identified as the getaway driver. Does anyone have information about Trey’s movements that day or about the meeting that led to the shooting?