Late on the evening of December 21, 2014, 24-year-old Don Eric Skinner Jr. was shot on Charleston’s peninsula near President and Line streets. Police found him critically wounded around 6:20 p.m.; he was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina and died later that night. The Charleston County coroner identified him the next day.

Early reports say detectives canvassed the area for witnesses and evidence but had not named or described a suspect, and investigators asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers. Public coverage focuses on the initial shooting and the coroner’s identification; there are no widely reported follow-ups naming an arrest or prosecution.

The obituary describes him as the son of Don Eric Skinner Sr. and the late Janice Alston Skinner, a father to a daughter Alicia in Atlanta, a boyfriend Sydaria Maxwell, and a network of family and friends who attended a funeral at Rivers Funeral Home Chapel and burial at Brownsville Cemetery in Summerville. If anyone has information about the shooting near President and Line on that night, please come forward.