In the early morning hours of August 4, 2014, a confrontation in Hallowell ended with 20-year-old William Joey Stephens of the Columbus area fatally shot. Deputies responded and began a search for the person responsible.

Officers located 19-year-old Skyler C. Gurnee of rural Columbus shortly after the incident. Gurnee had been injured during the event, was hospitalized, and then held at the Cherokee County Jail without bond. On August 5, 2014, Cherokee County Attorney Nathan Coleman charged Gurnee with one count of premeditated first-degree murder in Stephens’s death. The investigation described the shooting as resulting from the confrontation between Stephens and Gurnee.

Did anyone in the Hallowell or Columbus area see or hear anything the morning of August 4, 2014?