In the early morning of March 6, 2019, 42-year-old Marty Anthony George was found on the side of rural Warner Road in Ninety Six, South Carolina, with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. The discovery followed a 911 call from the mother of Mark Anthony Hailey Jr., who reported her son arriving home in an unfamiliar car, acting erratically and speaking of a shooting. Deputies found Hailey in an agitated, hallucinatory state and saw blood on the window of the vehicle he had been driving. Hailey told deputies he had shot a man he considered his brother and left him on Warner Road.

Hailey, 32 at the time, was taken into custody and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. A Greenwood County jury later found him guilty on both counts, and in September 2020 he was sentenced to 35 years for the murder with a concurrent five-year weapons term. The motive was described as drug-fueled paranoia and erratic behavior.

Did anyone in the Ninety Six area know Marty George or have information about his last hours?