A family graduation party in Columbia, South Carolina on June 3, 2017 turned deadly when an argument at the gathering escalated into gunfire. Thirty-one-year-old Jarritt Demonteze Rodgers was shot in the neck and upper body at about 9 p.m. while at a home in the 2100 block of Apple Valley Road. Neighbors reported a chaotic scene as people tried to render aid while Rodgers bled in the front yard; he later died during surgery at a local hospital.

Columbia Police investigators identified a suspect who had been at the scene. Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Jamaal Jones, described as a relative of the victim, was arrested at the location and booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on a murder charge. The shooting is reported to have followed the argument that began at the graduation celebration.

If anyone attended that party or has information about what led to the argument and shooting, please share details with investigators.