On February 17, 2017, a prearranged car sale at the Colony Apartments on Bailey Street in Columbia, South Carolina, ended in violence. James Dexter Grant, a 30-year-old man from Rembert, traveled there to sell a vehicle and was shot multiple times in the upper body during what investigators say became a robbery. He was taken to Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead that evening; the cause of death was complications from multiple gunshot wounds to his torso.

The Columbia Police Department named two people of interest. Within days, 21-year-old DaQuan James McCoy was located in a vehicle at a Dollar General on Bluff Road and arrested by officers working with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and the Richland County Sheriff’s Department; he was charged with murder and armed robbery. A short time later, 21-year-old Raheem Nyjal Thomas was arrested on Prescott Road and charged with the same offenses. Both were held at the Richland County jail.

What does anyone who knew Grant or witnessed the transaction remember about that evening at the Colony Apartments?