On the night of May 11, 2019, 36-year-old Aiken resident Jonathan M. Cochran was found on Edgefield Highway near Jack Jones Street after witnesses saw someone pushed from a dark-colored four-door car that did not stop. Bystanders tried to render aid until deputies and EMS arrived; Cochran was pronounced dead at the scene with apparent gunshot wounds to his upper torso. The Aiken County Coroner’s Office reported he had been shot and was believed to have been thrown from the vehicle. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the official cause of death.

The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office identified 19-year-old Ricky Antwon Creech of North Augusta as a suspect the following day and obtained warrants charging him with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Barnwell County deputies arrested Creech that evening at about 6:30 p.m. Little else about Cochran’s background is included and his ethnicity is not specified.

Did anyone in the area that night see the dark-colored car or have information about what happened on Edgefield Highway?