Nicholas Alford Jenkins, 27, was shot and killed in Lake City, South Carolina, on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The Florence County Coroner’s Office identified Jenkins at the scene and the death was classified as a homicide. Law enforcement, including the Lake City Police Department, opened an investigation; initial public reports did not name a suspect or report an arrest in the days after the shooting.

Born in Florence and raised by his aunt and uncle Beverly and LaRue Alford, Jenkins worked at Southeastern Honda in Timmonsville and had risen to a supervisor position. He was a devoted father to two children, Mason and Paris, and is survived by his mother Clementine Jenkins, father Lawrence McKenzie, siblings and extended family who have been mourning his loss.

What information can anyone share about that night or Jenkins’s movements in Lake City leading up to September 30?