Charles Wilburn Presler, 65, a Rock Hill business owner, was killed on May 21, 2025. The death followed a daytime domestic disturbance on Memorial Park Road in Lancaster involving 52-year-old Roger Ledell Baskins. After an argument at a residence where Baskins threatened a family member with a pistol, he fired into a relative’s car, smashed windows of two other vehicles with a car battery, and fled on foot before being found by family and reported to police.

Presler’s wife could not reach him by phone, prompting a welfare check at his shop on Memorial Park Road where deputies found him dead of an apparent gunshot wound. Investigators believe Baskins went to Presler’s business about an hour after the family incident. When apprehended, Baskins was driving Presler’s burgundy 1997 Toyota 4-Runner, had the victim’s documents, and a pistol recovered from the vehicle was linked by shell casings to the murder scene; evidence indicated Presler had been robbed.

Baskins faced charges including murder, armed robbery, burglary, grand larceny and weapons offenses; bail was denied. Has anyone who knew Presler or who was in the Memorial Park Road area that afternoon seen anything that could help the case?