A fare dispute in the early morning hours of February 17, 2018, in Columbia, South Carolina, ended with two people dead. Rayvon Wilmot, a 38-year-old Black/African American man working as a driver for Blue Ribbon cab company, picked up three teenagers and, after reaching a Johnson Avenue destination, argued with one passenger, 18-year-old Marques A. Hallman, about the cost of the ride. The argument escalated and both men produced firearms and shot each other while inside the taxi.

Both Wilmot and Hallman were taken to hospitals; Wilmot died of a gunshot wound to the head and Hallman was pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. The two other teenage passengers escaped without injury. The Columbia Police Department recovered the firearms used and said investigators were working to determine their origins; no additional suspects or arrests were reported.

Does anyone have information about the moments leading up to the confrontation on Johnson Avenue or about how the teenagers obtained the weapons?