Kevin Edwards, 45, was shot and killed on the night of May 30, 2025, at the Jefferson Apartments on Jefferson Avenue in Anderson, South Carolina. Emergency crews treated him at the scene and rushed him to AnMed hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 11:30–11:36 p.m. The county coroner listed the cause as a gunshot wound to the chest and ruled the death a homicide.

Edwards, born December 10, 1979, in Detroit to Joseph Edwards and Dortha Howard, was known to family and friends as Killa Kel. He lived in Anderson with his wife and was mourned by siblings, nieces, nephews and an extended circle who described his life as worth celebrating. Investigators from the Anderson Police Department and the coroner’s office canvassed the complex and appealed for witnesses in the days after the shooting.

Detectives identified a suspect days later; on June 2 police named Tyshun Kyreem Lomax as wanted on a murder charge. Authorities arrested Lomax at River Oak Apartments on July 1 and said he was being held on a murder charge with a bond hearing scheduled the following Wednesday.

If anyone saw or heard anything at Jefferson Apartments on the night of May 30, or knows more about what happened, please come forward.