On March 6, 2014, 35-year-old Black man Luther Jermaine Mitchell was shot and killed outside Club Bananas on Decker Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina. The shooting occurred about 1:30 a.m. after an argument in the club’s parking lot involving a woman and an acquaintance of a man identified as CD Cash. Mitchell, described as a friend of the woman, intervened to try to calm the dispute and was unarmed and not acting aggressively when he was shot multiple times in the upper body.

Richland County Sheriff’s deputies responded and investigators say witnesses identified 30-year-old CD Cash as the shooter. Deputies located and arrested Cash shortly after the incident; he was initially charged with murder and held in the county jail. Court records show the case was later resolved with a conviction on a lesser charge, and by 2017 Cash was serving a sentence for voluntary manslaughter in connection with Mitchell’s death.

If anyone knew Luther Mitchell or witnessed the disturbance that night near Club Bananas, please share what you remember.