On the evening of October 26, 2013, 18-year-old Gregory Shaquan Saunders was shot and killed while seated in the driver’s seat of a car at The Fairway Club Apartments on Villa Road in Greenville, South Carolina. Saunders, a student at Carolina High School, was unarmed with his windows closed when he was struck by gunfire during what had been arranged as a drug deal to purchase half an ounce of marijuana.

Mclean then fired three more shots into the car, killing Saunders and wounding Saunders’ cousin, a junior at Mauldin High School, who was taken to the hospital. Mclean fled but was captured two days later near Atlanta and extradited to Greenville; two other people were also arrested in connection with the incident.

In April 2015 Mclean pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the attack and received a 30-year prison sentence that requires serving at least 85 percent before parole is possible.