On the evening of October 11, 2017, 34-year-old Laura Ashley Hood was found dead at a home on Patterson Road in Campobello, South Carolina. A mother, daughter and sister, Hood worked at the Village Greens Golf Club.

Her 60-year-old coworker, Donald Anthony Partaka, placed a 911 call claiming he had shot an unknown intruder in his house; deputies found no sign of forced entry and other aspects of the scene did not match his initial account. Investigators later determined Partaka knew Hood and that he had been drinking in the hours before the shooting.

Partaka was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime; he later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and the weapons charge and was sentenced to 24 years in prison on April 22, 2019.