In the early morning hours of June 25, 2026, 23-year-old Joselito Billy Leopard Rivera was shot to death in Greenville, South Carolina. Rivera, a father of two young children and a brother, was a passenger in a vehicle on Saluda Dam Road when an argument with another passenger, 20-year-old James Emanuel Waiters III, escalated and ended with Rivera suffering multiple gunshot wounds. He was found dead along the roadside.

A nearby deputy heard the shots and stopped a vehicle leaving the area, which led to the detention of several people and Waiters’ arrest on charges of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. At a bond hearing the next day, Rivera’s family urged the judge to deny bond; the judge did so, and a confrontation between supporters of both sides erupted and spilled from the courtroom into the courthouse lobby and parking lot.

Does anyone have information about what followed in this case or knew Joselito Rivera?