Amon Rice was 17 when he was shot on May 10, 2018, on Greenlake Drive near Unity Missionary Baptist Church in Hopkins, South Carolina. He died of his injuries two days later in a Columbia hospital. Rice was a student and two-sport athlete at Lower Richland High School; his mother said he had been defending a younger classmate the night he was shot.

Investigators say a dispute at the high school led to a large brawl at a community event in Eastover, and the groups later agreed to meet. That meeting became a pre-planned shootout: both sides arrived armed and nearly 60 rounds were fired. Rice was hit and another teenager suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities said Rice was armed but it was unclear whether he fired, and that he was not the intended target.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department arrested 22 people in connection with the case, including several juveniles and some parents; charges ranged from murder to possession of a weapon during a violent crime and accessory before and after the fact. Social media videos of the fight and shooting were used to identify suspects. Did anyone in the Hopkins or Lower Richland community have information about that night or the people involved?