On a Friday morning, November 1, 2019, Joshua Emmanuel Peterson, 28, was shot while driving along Two Notch Road in Richland County, near Two Notch Plaza and Columbia Place Mall. Witnesses heard rapid gunfire as a black car pulled alongside his vehicle; investigators say the attacker’s gunfire left at least ten bullet holes in the driver’s side. Joshua’s car ran into a ditch on Cadia Drive. He managed to climb out and flag down help but later died at Prisma Health Richland Hospital from complications of a gunshot wound to the lower body.

Joshua was born March 22, 1991, and grew up in the Midlands, attending Lexington County School District 5 and Midlands Technical College. Obituaries name parents Michael and Rochelle and two young daughters, Kayana Shyann and Kaniya Nevaeh, among mourners. Deputies initially searched for a black Dodge Dart; within a week Sheriff Leon Lott said investigators traced the attack to the courthouse visit Joshua made that morning and identified two men who had followed him. Aaron Evans, 44, and Simeon Miller, 25, were arrested and charged with murder in connection with the shooting.

Did anyone in the area see the black Dodge Dart or remember unusual activity near the courthouse that morning?