Dalton Dwyer Moore was 18 and a recent Broome High School graduate when he was shot outside the Timken Community Center in Cowpens, South Carolina, on the evening of May 5, 2017. He was taken to Spartanburg Medical Center but succumbed to his injuries, prompting strong community grief.

Witness descriptions of a vehicle and the suspects’ clothing led investigators to two arrests. Nineteen-year-old Devin Zachary Elijah Ruttle and 18-year-old Lorenzo Guillarmo Daniel Calderon were taken into custody. At a four-day trial the court found Ruttle had fired the fatal shot; he was convicted of murder and unlawfully carrying a pistol and sentenced to life without parole. Calderon was convicted as an accessory after the fact and received five years in prison followed by five years’ probation, the first year of which is to be served under home detention.

Anyone who knew Dalton or was present at the Timken Community Center that night and has additional information is asked to come forward.