On July 15, 2015, four people were found shot to death at a rural home on Old State Road in Holly Hill, South Carolina. Jerome Butler, 58, was discovered on the front lawn; inside the house were 28-year-old Krystal Hutto, 17-year-old Shamekia Sanders, and 14-year-old Tamara Perry. An 8-year-old boy in the home survived a gunshot wound.

Investigators linked the killings to a drug-related motive. The father of three victims was arrested on drug charges and obstructing the investigation, and another person was charged with obstruction. A car seen at the house was later found burned about 15 miles away.

More than a year after the murders, three men — Robert Bailey, Luther Smith, and Antly Scott — were charged in the killings. A fourth man, Derrick Coleman, testified for the prosecution, saying he drove that night and that Scott confessed after the shootings.