Around 3:30 a.m. on September 21, 2010, shots rang out near Hanover Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found a man lying in the roadway in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church at 18 Hanover Street. He was identified as John Jenkins and had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Charleston Police Department has continued to classify John Jenkins’s death as an unsolved homicide. No arrests have been announced and no primary suspects have been publicly identified; the motive remains unclear. Investigators have kept the case open and asked the public for any information that could help identify those responsible.

If anyone has information about John Jenkins, his movements that night, or the area around Hanover Street in the pre-dawn hours of September 21, 2010, please contact the Charleston Police Department.