On the afternoon of November 21, 2017, Emyle Markeil McDuffie, 23, was shot multiple times while walking through the Phoenix Place Apartments in Greenwood, South Carolina. Witnesses say a red car with tinted windows pulled up, a man exited and opened fire; McDuffie was struck nine times and later died at Self Regional Medical Center. A companion was also wounded, suffering a gunshot to the hip.

Police identified three suspects. Zantravious Hall, then 24, was captured the day after the shooting after a short car chase that ended in a crash and a brief foot pursuit. Eighteen-year-old Kemad White surrendered two days after the attack. A third suspect, 21-year-old Cedrick Elmore Jr., was at large at the time. All three were charged with murder.

A Greenwood County jury later convicted Hall of murder, attempted murder and a weapons charge; because of a prior most-serious offense, he received life without parole under the state’s recidivist law. Anyone with information about Emyle McDuffie, his movements that day, or the shooting is asked to come forward.