William Desean Archie, 25, was killed after a confrontation at a Columbia gas station in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 24, 2017. The incident happened before 3 a.m. at the BP Station at 1005 Fontaine Road when a man later identified as 29-year-old Dennis Diamond asked Archie, who was sitting in a car with a passenger, for a ride. The request escalated into a verbal and then physical altercation.

During the struggle Diamond produced a handgun and shot Archie in the lower body. Archie was driven to his Hillcrest Avenue residence and then taken by emergency medical services to Palmetto Health Richland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:10 p.m. The Richland County Coroner determined the cause of death was the gunshot wound. Law enforcement with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department identified a suspect and arrested Dennis Diamond later that same day on Hughes Street; he was charged with Archie’s murder.

Does anyone have information about the early-morning events at the BP on Fontaine Road or the moments that followed at Hillcrest Avenue?