On June 3, 2019, a high-volume exchange of gunfire at a Circle K on Sea Island Parkway in Beaufort, South Carolina, left 20-year-old Clarence Mitchell III dead and another man wounded. The shooting happened about 9 p.m. on Lady’s Island as a Beaufort High School graduation ceremony was ending. Mitchell, a Black male from St. Helena Island, was seated in a vehicle when occupants of at least two cars began firing; investigators recovered more than 70 cartridge casings at the scene.

The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office identified and charged several suspects in the months that followed: Montarious Brown, Dequarious Major, and Jeffrey Daquann Redd faced murder, three counts of attempted murder, and weapons offenses, and Ronald Moore was charged with obstruction of justice. Prosecutors said the attack was targeted and tied to a dispute between the groups. In February 2022 Redd went to trial; the jury acquitted him on all counts after a four-day trial.

With those developments, the death of Clarence Mitchell III remained without a criminal conviction. Did anyone in the community see or hear anything that night that could still help clarify what happened?