On the evening of April 2, 2017, a gathering at a home on Muddy Creek Road in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, ended in two fatal shootings. Twenty-year-old Quincy King was shot and killed in the kitchen after a visitor, 35-year-old Malcolm Tiaheem Melton of Wilmington, North Carolina, armed himself and hid behind a refrigerator. A second victim, 25-year-old Marcol McNair, was also shot and killed when he entered the same room.

Reports say Melton had been using large amounts of illegal drugs in the days before the shootings, had not slept, and developed paranoid delusions that others were conspiring against him. Melton fled into nearby woods after the shootings but was found about an hour later with a gun and magazines; he admitted to the shootings and investigators recovered multiple illegal substances at the scene. Ballistics linked a .40-caliber Glock Melton had brought from North Carolina to the casings near the victims.

Melton was charged with two counts of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Any readers who knew Quincy King or have information about that April 2017 gathering are asked to share what they know.