Henry L. Crittington, 19, was fatally shot on the night of February 12, 2026, inside a dorm room at Hugine Suites on the South Carolina State University campus in Orangeburg. Crittington, who was not a student, was in the room with others when gunfire erupted. Eighteen-year-old Terrell Thomas also died, and a third person, a student, was wounded. Authorities say the shooting grew out of a dispute over a marijuana transaction rather than a random attack, and the campus was placed under an hours-long lockdown as investigators processed the scene.

Within days, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested 18-year-old Khamanti Lytrel Kennedy and charged Kennedy with murder in connection with the two deaths. Kennedy, also not a student, was reported to have been out on bond from a prior gun-related on-campus incident months earlier; arrest warrants say Kennedy arrived at the dorm with three other people shortly before the shooting.

If anyone was at Hugine Suites that night or has information about the dispute or the individuals present, please share what is known with investigators.