Maria Esperansa Rico, 24, was killed in a drive-by shooting at her Henderson Street home in Greenville, South Carolina, in the early morning hours of November 19, 2025. Around 1 a.m. multiple 911 callers reported heavy gunfire; deputies found at least 30 bullet holes in the front of the residence and a parked car outside. Maria was struck by at least one bullet and was pronounced dead at the scene; the county coroner ruled her death a homicide. Several other people were in the house during the shooting but were not physically harmed.

Investigators determined the shots were fired from outside and that the attack grew out of an ongoing dispute involving a relative of Rico and the suspects; Maria was not the intended target. By the time of these reports three men — 25-year-old Christopher Robin Jimenez, 22-year-old Angel Gabriel Jimenez-Jimenez, and 20-year-old Alexandro Galloway — had been arrested and charged with murder and conspiracy. Jimenez-Jimenez and Galloway also faced possession-of-a-weapon-during-a-violent-crime charges, and an 18-year-old, Brandon Isac Castro Baca, was arrested on an obstruction charge for allegedly giving misleading information about the firearm.

Anyone who was in the Henderson Street neighborhood that night or who has information about the dispute that led to this shooting is asked to come forward.