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On the evening of June 29, 2017, 21-year-old Rakeem Ta’Quion Patterson was killed in a drive-by shooting at the Palmetto Place Apartments in Lancaster, South Carolina. Patterson had been outside playing cards with friends when a Subaru drove into the complex and gunfire erupted. Patterson was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two others were wounded: 22-year-old Markevis Foster was critically injured while reportedly trying to help Patterson and later died at Carolinas Medical Center; a third person sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The motive was not immediately clear, and investigators did not classify the attack as a gang-related incident.

A person of interest, 36-year-old Courtney Javon McCain, turned himself in the morning after the shootings and was charged with accessory after the fact of murder. On July 7, 2017, 24-year-old Demarcus Javontia Marsh was arrested by the State Law Enforcement Division and charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, and three counts of possession of a firearm during a violent crime, identified as the suspected shooter.

Did anyone in Lancaster have information about what led up to that night or recognize the vehicle involved?