On the pre-dawn morning of August 6, 2008, Colleton County Sheriff’s Deputy Dennis Carl Compton, 39, responded to a residential alarm on Sunflower Drive in Smoaks, South Carolina. The homeowner’s son found Deputy Compton wounded in the front yard and used the deputy’s radio to call for help. Compton had been shot in the stomach with a shotgun and later died; he had served with the sheriff’s office for sixteen months and left behind a wife and four children.

The investigation generated more than 300 leads and a reward that reached $25,000. In September 2008, two men — 19-year-old Travis Javon Harris and 18-year-old Jacoby Jermaine Fields — were arrested and charged with murder and first-degree burglary in connection with the shooting. In December 2011 both were convicted of Deputy Compton’s murder and received life sentences.

Does anyone have memories of Sunflower Drive in Smoaks from 2008 or information about that night that could shed further light on what happened?