On October 26, 2025, Thomas Tadd Brandt Lilly Jr., 33, of Williston, South Carolina, was fatally shot inside a Sprint gas station on Edgefield Road in North Augusta. The shooting also killed 76-year-old Jewel Harden of Hephzibah, Georgia. North Augusta Public Safety officers were sent to the scene around 3 p.m. after reports of a shooting.

The first officer on scene encountered a man in the parking lot armed with an AR-style pistol; the armed man raised the weapon at the officer and the officer fired, striking and hospitalizing the man. Investigators found Lilly and Harden dead inside the convenience store, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division took the lead on the probe into the double homicide and the officer-involved shooting. Friends and family remembered Lilly as a loyal, lovable father who had recently marked six months of sobriety; a celebration of his life was planned at University Parkway Church of God in Aiken.

Did anyone see activity at the Edgefield Road Sprint station that afternoon or know anything that could help explain what happened?