A domestic dispute in Ladson, South Carolina, ended in a deadly shooting on December 27, 2024. John A. Childs, 36, of Boston; his sister Adrienne Seay, 38; and their father, John F. Childs, 68, were found shot inside an apartment at the Abberly Crossing complex. Neighbors reported hearing a commotion and banging from the unit before a man emerged carrying a five-year-old child.

Police identified the gunman as 44-year-old Darius Seay, Adrienne’s estranged husband. Witnesses said Seay pistol-whipped a person in the breezeway, fled in a black Ford Explorer, then returned wearing a bulletproof vest and a combat-style helmet and retrieved an AR-15 style rifle from his vehicle. Officers later located Seay at a residence about eight miles away; he came out holding the child and released the child to law enforcement.

Seay had been arrested the day before on a second-degree assault and battery charge and released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond about thirty hours before the shootings. He and Adrienne had been married for nearly ten years and were in the process of divorcing. Does anyone have information about the events at Abberly Crossing that afternoon or about the family leading up to December 27, 2024?