On the morning of December 22, 2018, the body of 41-year-old Lamar Johnson was found on the side of Billy Hill Road in the Burton community of Beaufort County, South Carolina. A local resident discovered him and deputies from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office responded around 8 a.m. The death was treated as suspicious and an autopsy at the Medical University of South Carolina determined the cause as gunshot wounds and the manner of death as homicide.

Investigators increased their presence in the area, worked the scene, interviewed potential witnesses and gathered evidence. Authorities said they had not established a connection between Johnson’s killing and a separate shooting earlier that same day in nearby Grays Hill. No suspect was taken into custody in the initial response and detectives were pursuing leads.

Does anyone in the Burton or Grays Hill area have information that could help piece together what happened to Lamar Johnson?