A social gathering in Sumter, South Carolina turned deadly on the night of September 15, 2024. A dispute that began earlier in the evening escalated outside a residence on Lirope Way into an exchange of gunfire involving 40-year-old Jeremie Devon Richardson and 38-year-old James Christopher Wilson. Richardson was later found inside his vehicle at an intersection on Rhododendron Street with a gunshot wound and was taken to Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital, where he died shortly after arrival.

The Sumter Police Department identified and located James Christopher Wilson the same evening at a King Street residence and booked him into the Sumter County Detention Center. Wilson faces charges of murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. An autopsy was scheduled by the Sumter County Coroner’s Office and the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone was at the gathering or saw activity on Lirope Way or Rhododendron Street that night, please come forward with information.