On the evening of August 31, 2017, 16-year-old Alydia Ling was standing outside her home in Estill, South Carolina, when a 1992 blue Honda Accord pulled up and its driver, 39-year-old Johnnie Lee McKnight of Barnwell County, ordered her to get in. Alydia, who was pregnant and about three weeks from her due date, was urged by her brother Shamond to go inside. An argument between Shamond and McKnight followed; McKnight initially drove away but returned and opened fire from his vehicle, pointing a rifle from the driver’s side window. A bullet struck Alydia in the neck as she stood in the doorway next to her mother, Debra, killing her and her unborn son at the scene. A friend of Debra Ling was also inside the house during the shooting.

McKnight was arrested the next day in Bamberg County. Investigators never recovered the murder weapon but found a camera in McKnight’s vehicle with photos of an assault-style rifle, and gunshot residue testing on the Honda Accord showed a firearm had been discharged from inside the car. DNA testing established McKnight as the father of Alydia’s unborn child. In February 2019, McKnight was convicted of the murders and related charges and received lengthy prison terms.

Did anyone in the Estill area know Alydia or have information about what happened that night?