Harold Cookie Gaines Jr, 49, died after a deadly shootout at an Anderson, South Carolina nightclub on January 8, 2018. The confrontation involved Gaines, 29-year-old Jwan Smith, and a 22-year-old man, and began as a personal dispute reportedly over a woman known to both Gaines and Smith. Both Gaines and Smith sustained fatal gunshot wounds to the chest and were pronounced dead at the scene. The third man was also shot and listed in critical condition.

The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation to determine the sequence of events and the role of the critically injured man. With both primary participants dead, no immediate arrests were announced in connection with the two fatalities. Family and friends were left to grieve after a night that escalated from an argument into deadly violence.

Did anyone have information about who was present at the club that night or about the dispute that preceded the shooting?