On May 18, 2016, 20-year-old Isaiah Shinn was fatally shot while seated in a car on Cherry Laurel Lane in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The York County Coroner pronounced him dead at the scene after he was struck twice by gunfire; one bullet pierced his heart. The shooting occurred just after midnight during a drug deal arranged over social media. Shinn and two others had met Ernest Markevius Thompson to buy about an ounce of marijuana for roughly $275 in the Cherry Laurel Apartments parking lot. As the car was backing away, Thompson fired a .40-caliber handgun 16 times into the vehicle. The two other occupants were unharmed.

Police later located and arrested 24-year-old Ernest Markevius Thompson of Lancaster and 24-year-old Lauren Nicole Rawlinson of Rock Hill in a nearby apartment, and recovered the firearm believed to be used. Thompson was initially charged with murder, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and two counts of attempted murder; Rawlinson was charged with accessory after the fact. In February 2018 Thompson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received a 15-year sentence; he said he believed someone in the car was reaching for something and that drugs had been taken from his hand. Does anyone have information about the meeting that led to this exchange or knew Isaiah Shinn?