William Kareem Major was 18 when he was found dead in his SUV in the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church parking lot on Keans Neck Road in early January 2015. He had multiple gunshot wounds to his torso. Investigators believe he was shot on Kinloch Road and tried to drive away before pulling over at the church.

A Battery Creek High School graduate from the class of 2014, Major’s death shocked the Dale-area community. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office initially named a different teenager as a suspect but later retracted that statement. Within days a 17-year-old, identified as Geoni Najee Clark, was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting; the route Major took would have led him past Clark’s home on Keans Neck Road. Clark had earlier been charged as an adult in 2013 with armed robbery and assault by a mob, charges later handled in family court.

If anyone in Seabrook or the Dale area remembers William, his movements that night, or other details that could add to the record, please share what is known.