Dakota Michael Calhoun was 25 when he disappeared on October 9, 2018. He borrowed his mother’s car and cell phone that afternoon and was last captured on gas station surveillance at about 4 p.m. with his cousin, Gabriel Dantray Curry. Dakota did not return to his mother’s workplace by 5 p.m., which prompted a missing persons report the next day to the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office.

Search efforts led investigators to a wooded area off Sandy Springs Road in Trenton, South Carolina, where Dakota’s body was found. He had sustained a single gunshot wound to the back of his head; a single shell casing was recovered nearby. Tracking information from the borrowed cell phone, a receipt found in the vehicle, and gunshot residue on the steering wheel cover were among the items investigators cited during the case.

Gabriel Dantray Curry was arrested and charged in the killing. Testimony at trial included the victim’s mother and a forensic pathologist who confirmed cause of death. An Edgefield County jury convicted Curry and imposed a 38-year sentence; under South Carolina law the offense carries no parole.

Did anyone in the area know Dakota’s routines or see him with his cousin on October 9, 2018?