Rodney Jermaine Nesbitt was killed the night of February 22, 2014, outside Crocs Nightclub on Pelham Road in Greenville, South Carolina. Nesbitt, 29, an Iraq War veteran seated in the passenger seat of a Chevy Tahoe, was struck by gunfire and died of a gunshot wound to the head. A second occupant of the vehicle was wounded but survived.

Greenville County deputies tied the shooting to a dispute that began earlier at the club and within a week arrested Billy Lemurces Taylor on charges including murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. Taylor was convicted at trial, but in June 2019 the South Carolina Court of Appeals found a supplemental jury instruction unconstitutional and reversed the conviction; the State’s attempt to overturn that reversal was dismissed by the South Carolina Supreme Court in June 2020.

Nesbitt, known to family as Jermaine, was a native of Moore, South Carolina, a Dorman High School graduate and a decorated Army veteran. He is survived by his wife and children. If anyone witnessed the events outside Crocs Nightclub or has information that could clarify what happened that night, please share what is known.