In the early morning hours of April 30, 2017, 57-year-old Rainey Valentine was fatally shot inside his Freemont Road home in Longs, South Carolina. Unseen assailants drove past the residence and fired a volley of bullets that pierced the house; Valentine, who had been resting on the living room couch, was struck and later died of his wounds. There were clear bullet holes in the exterior of the home and several children aged one to eleven were inside at the time; none of the children were physically harmed and they were unable to describe the shooters.

Horry County Police opened an investigation and initially looked into a possible connection between this drive-by shooting and another nearby shooting in Loris less than an hour earlier that left one person dead and several injured. Does anyone in the Longs or Loris area have information that could help bring Rainey Valentine’s killers to justice?