A card game in Roebuck, South Carolina, turned deadly on the evening of December 27, 2018, when a dispute over a $50 pot ended with 37-year-old Jamel Martel Ross shot and killed. The man who fired the shot, 52-year-old Andre N. Lyles, initially called 911 and claimed self-defense, and he sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his hand during the incident.

Investigators found Ross had been shot in the back, a detail that undermined Lyles’s account and led to his arrest on murder and weapon possession charges. In July 2021, Lyles pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with a requirement to serve a substantial portion of that term before becoming eligible for release.

Does anyone have information about the gathering that night or knew Jamel Martel Ross?