On the morning of December 17, 2019, violence struck an apartment in the Woodland Village complex in Columbia, South Carolina. Branton T. Booker, 28, was shot and killed along with two housemates, Sheldon D. Livingston, 26, and Duwan E. Williams, 27. A fourth person in the unit escaped unharmed and alerted authorities. Investigators concluded the attack was not random and that the victims had been ambushed in their home; Booker was shot when he opened the door and the other two were killed while asleep.

The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department identified two suspects. Justin Tyler Ellaree Hopkins, 21 at the time, was arrested after a traffic stop; witnesses placed him near the apartment before the shooting and fleeing afterward, and evidence from his home and the scene linked him to the killings. Jeremy Savoy Cornish, 38, was later arrested by the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force and identified as the driver who transported Hopkins to and from the complex. Both men were charged with three counts of murder and first-degree burglary.

Does anyone have information about Booker, where he lived in Columbia, or who might have known the three victims?