Demetrius Floyd, 34, was shot and killed at a home in the 400 block of Dubard Boyle Road near Fairfield Road in Columbia, South Carolina, on the night of November 24, 2019. Deputies from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department found Floyd with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper and lower body shortly before 10 p.m. Emergency medical services took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:38 p.m.; the Richland County Coroner attributed his death to complications from the gunshot wounds. The coroner reported Floyd’s death as one of five shooting fatalities that day. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department investigated and appealed for public help; three days later U.S. Marshals and sheriff’s deputies arrested 18-year-old Jaylen Bell in Columbia. Bell was charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Authorities did not immediately release a motive for the shooting.

Did anyone in the Columbia area see or hear anything on the night of November 24 that could help fill gaps in the timeline?