On December 24, 2017, 74-year-old Johnny Cameron was shot and killed during a home invasion at his residence on Georgetown Road in Lake City, South Carolina. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy was performed at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston to determine the precise cause of death.

Investigators described the incident as a robbery that turned violent and identified five men as suspects. Florence County authorities arrested Anthony Markell Hudson, Charlie Myron Roberson, and Carl Jerell McDowell on murder charges. Charges were later filed against Curtis Roy Nelson and Justin Marquise Pringle in their absence; Nelson was accused of murder and armed robbery with a deadly weapon, and Pringle was charged with murder and unlawfully carrying a pistol. Pringle was later captured in Columbus, Ohio, and returned to Florence County to face proceedings.

The arrests moved the case into the justice system, after a killing that shook the Lake City community. If anyone knew Johnny Cameron or witnessed activity near Georgetown Road on or around December 24, 2017, please come forward with information.