Prince Treshawn Alvante Polite, 19, of Johns Island was found dead on May 17, 2017, on Wiggins Road near Green Pond, South Carolina. A logging company employee discovered the body; the Colleton County Coroner, Richard Harvey, said Polite had died of multiple gunshot wounds and that the body had not been at the site for a long time. Investigators processed the scene where the body was found and another location about 150 yards away, and authorities believe Polite was killed at a different location before his body was brought to Wiggins Road.

Polite was last seen two days earlier, on Mother’s Day, leaving his home with two friends; he had planned to meet his best friend in Beaufort and never arrived. The case was assigned to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. By early 2019 the investigation had grown cold and no arrests had been announced. Polite’s mother, Priscilla Myers, says one friend who was with him stopped cooperating with the family, deleted social media, disconnected his phone, and moved to Atlanta, and that another young man from the Ritter area who was in the car had not been questioned.

Does anyone have information about Prince’s movements on Mother’s Day 2017, or about the people who were with him that day?