On the evening of January 18, 2017, gunfire on the 600 block of Blake Street in Rock Hill, South Carolina, left two young men dead. Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Williamson was pronounced dead at the scene. Eighteen-year-old Mekhi Rawlinson was taken to Piedmont Medical Center by a private vehicle and died the following morning. A third man suffered serious injuries and was transported to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte; he survived.

Police say the shooting began after a prearranged meeting that was meant to involve selling a gun to a woman. According to a surviving victim’s account, the woman, identified as 20-year-old Alexis Thomasson, allegedly tried to take the firearm without paying. A struggle and then gunfire followed, leaving Williamson and Rawlinson fatally wounded and the third man injured. Thomasson was arrested days later and charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, and criminal conspiracy.

Are there details about the meeting or the people involved that anyone in Rock Hill can add?