Shortly after midnight on September 18, 2024, gunfire broke out at the Liberty Street Apartments in Johnsonville, South Carolina. Responding deputies found 14-year-old Jakari NyJurel Doctor, a Black student at Johnsonville High School known as Jurel to his family, fatally wounded after a male passenger from a car allegedly exited and fired multiple rounds into a parked vehicle occupied by six people. Jakari and a woman in her twenties were later found with gunshot wounds on nearby Deerfield Road; both were taken to hospitals and Jakari died of his injuries while the woman was expected to recover.

The Florence County Sheriff’s Office identified two suspects and made arrests on September 20, 2024. Nineteen-year-old Yabriah Latia Lewis was booked on charges including murder, several counts of attempted murder, and criminal conspiracy. Twenty-one-year-old Kalebsolik Daron Singletary was also located, taken into custody, and charged with murder in connection with Jakari’s death. The case is now moving through the legal system.

If anyone has information about Jakari, the events at Liberty Street Apartments that night, or the people involved, please share what you know with investigators.