Sammy Tribble III was 32 when he was found shot to death in the front yard of a home on Gastley Drive in Clinton, South Carolina, on the morning of December 14, 2016. He was born December 4, 1984, in Newberry County, the son of Nancy Tribble and Sammy Sims Jr., and was remembered in funeral notices as a devoted father to two daughters, Samara and Jamaria, and by friends who knew him as Sam Sam.

Laurens County deputies and the county coroner responded just before 11 a.m., and the coroner said Tribble had been shot at least once; an autopsy was scheduled for the next day. Investigators treated the front yard as a homicide scene and interviewed witnesses. Local reporting and the sheriff’s office identified a man named Sammy Davis, later appearing in booking records as Samuel Antonio Davis, who was taken into custody at the scene on outstanding warrants and was charged with murder two days after the killing.

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