In the early morning hours of Monday, January 8, 2018, a shooting outside Big D’s Lounge in Anderson, South Carolina, left two men dead: 29-year-old Anderson resident Jwan Tyree Smith and 49-year-old Harold Cookie Lee Gaines, Jr. The violence followed an altercation involving three men and occurred shortly after 1:30 a.m. A third man was wounded and taken to the hospital.

One victim died at the scene, and Smith was pronounced dead at AnMed Health Medical Center, according to the Chief Deputy Coroner. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office opened the investigation, and immediate reports showed no arrests or publicly identified suspects. Subsequent reporting has not indicated any arrests in the years after the shooting, leaving responsibility for the deaths unresolved.

If anyone has information about the confrontation outside Big D’s Lounge on January 8, 2018, please come forward to assist the investigation.