On the evening of January 30, 2016, officers were called to a home on Hemington Highway in Kingstree after a report of a shooting. Thirty-year-old George Goethe Mixon III was found on the living room floor with a gunshot wound to his chest and was taken to a local hospital, where he later died.

Investigators identified a suspect at the scene: Mixon’s mother, 65-year-old Phyllis E. Owens. Authorities say a verbal argument between mother and son escalated and resulted in the shooting. Owens was arrested by the Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime; she was held pending a bond hearing.

The community was left reeling by an apparently domestic, fatal shooting that unfolded inside a family home. If anyone has information about George Mixon III or the events that night, please share what is known.