A 9-year-old boy, Brody Langley, was killed in a shooting in Pageland, South Carolina, on September 28, 2025. Brody was in the parking lot of a Blue Sky Mart gas station when shots were fired as one vehicle tried to leave a pre-arranged fight between a teenage family friend and another youth. Investigators say Brody was struck in the crossfire.

Authorities arrested eleven people after the shooting, a mix of adults and juveniles. Brody’s parents, Raven Nicole Deese, 35, and James Franklin Langley, 37, were charged with a dozen offenses each, including homicide by child abuse and unlawful neglect of a child. Two others, 28-year-old James Allen Jordan and 17-year-old Bryson Deese, were charged with murder; Bryson Deese is being tried as an adult and faces an additional firearm charge. Officials say Bryson brought a handgun to the intended fistfight, dropped it, and another juvenile allegedly picked it up and fired the shot that killed Brody. Several other juveniles, ages 13 to 16, face murder and related charges; one 14-year-old is charged with assault and battery resulting in death.

A judge initially denied bond for the four adult suspects and all juveniles; Bryson Deese was later granted a $100,000 bond.

Does anyone have information about the events at the gas station that morning or knew Brody and his family?