Xavier Moultrie was 28 when gunfire ended his life on Sweet Bay Lane in Moncks Corner in the early hours of Sunday, July 28, 2019. Deputies and the coroner arrived after a 4:40 a.m. call; Xavier was found on the ground with at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner listed cause of death as a gunshot wound and the case was treated as a homicide.

Investigators later focused on a local man, Johntay Omar Weathers, obtaining arrest warrants charging him with murder, use of a weapon during a violent crime, and possession of a firearm by a person prohibited from having one. U.S. Marshals and North Charleston police arrested Weathers in November 2019 on the Berkeley County murder warrant; he was taken to the Hill-Finklea Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.

Weathers was himself fatally shot and pronounced dead at a Berkeley County hospital on April 23, 2021; investigators have described that death as a separate unsolved homicide. Xavier’s family has remembered him as a devoted son, brother, father to his young daughter Bailey, a construction worker, and a sports enthusiast. Did anyone in the Moncks Corner area see or hear anything on Sweet Bay Lane that July night that could still help clarify what happened?