Clifford Harrison Jr., 22, was shot in the West Ashley neighborhood of Charleston on an October evening in 2019. Deputies were called around 7 p.m. to the 700 block of Hitching Post Road and found him unconscious in a yard with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina and pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m. on October 22, 2019; the shooting was classified as a homicide.

Funeral notices list his birth in February 1997 and note ties to North Charleston High School and the local basketball community. Investigators initially kept details sparse, but a February 2020 arrest brought charges against 20-year-old Marquell Myers for murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime; the U.S. Marshals Task Force assisted in the arrest. In March 2020 deputies arrested 20-year-old Zarmell Polite and charged him with the same counts, plus assault while resisting arrest and threatening a public official after an attempted arrest.

When the case reached trial, prosecutors alleged the two men came to the West Ashley home and fired the shots that killed Harrison; his mother testified she saw two men with dreadlocks outside and that they fled in a red car. Both defendants were found not guilty on the murder charges, and no subsequent convictions are reported. Does anyone have information about what happened that night on Hitching Post Road?