Ryan Williams was 21 when he was found fatally shot on Meadowfield Road in Gaston, South Carolina, on April 29, 2016. The shooting occurred around 11:30 a.m.; an autopsy attributed his death to a single gunshot wound to the head. Williams was Black and from Swansea.

Lexington County investigators quickly identified two suspects. Teresa Farris Epley, 46 and of Swansea, was arrested in West Columbia the same day and held without bond at the Lexington County Detention Center. Fareed Rasheed Makeen, 48 of Jenkinsville, was later arrested in Virginia after a traffic stop; authorities announced plans to seek his extradition to South Carolina. Both were charged with murder and arrest warrants state both were present and involved in the shooting.

Investigators also sought a Swansea man, Daiquan Lamont Brooks, on an obstruction of justice allegation tied to the case. Anyone with information about the events leading to Williams’s death or the relationships among those involved is asked to come forward.