Michael Allen Rhodes, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Anderson, South Carolina, on the evening of Friday, January 31, 2025. Police were called to Osborne Avenue after reports of gunfire and arrived around 7:45 p.m., finding Rhodes on the front steps of a residence with a gunshot wound to the head. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene and an autopsy later confirmed the gunshot wound as the cause of death.

The Anderson Police Department and the Anderson County Coroner’s Office have classified the death as a homicide. Witnesses said multiple people fled the area immediately after the shooting.

Does anyone in the Anderson area have information about movements on Osborne Avenue that night or saw people leaving the scene?