On the evening of September 27, 2017, 29-year-old Joel McLemore was on a porch on 16th Street in Lancaster, South Carolina when Demarcus Obrien Foster approached him, drew a handgun, and shot him in the head. McLemore was taken to a hospital in Charlotte and died of his injuries a few days later.

Investigators identified three people connected to the shooting. Foster was named as the shooter. Maryam Yuwsufiynah Rivera drove a 2004 Honda used for the getaway, and Quinterious Raquon Truesdale was also in the vehicle; Rivera and Truesdale were charged with accessory after the fact to a felony. Because McLemore was the brother of a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office drug unit supervisor, the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office took over the prosecution.

After a four-day trial in March 2019, a jury convicted Foster of murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; he received life without parole. Joel McLemore is remembered by family for his love of sports and his kind, caring nature. Did anyone in Lancaster know Joel or have information about that night?