On May 30, 2019, 19-year-old Nyquan Jamel Samuels was shot at a residence in the 500 block of South Lafayette Drive in Sumter, South Carolina. Emergency crews found him with a critical gunshot wound to the abdomen around 2:00 p.m.; he was stabilized, airlifted to Prisma Health Richland, and died later that day.

Sumter Police detectives investigated and determined the discharge of the firearm was accidental rather than premeditated. A 17-year-old, Darius Therald Funches-McClam, surrendered to police the day after the shooting and was arrested; prosecutors charged him with involuntary manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm by a minor.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who recall what happened that afternoon and can help clarify how the firearm was introduced and handled?