On a July morning in 2024, 18-year-old Shashonna Tiffany Angel Bellman of Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, was found gravely injured inside a small house on Boy Scout Road after nearby gunfire. A bystander began CPR before deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office arrived just after 8:30 a.m.; fire and EMS crews pronounced her dead at the scene, and the coroner later determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound at about 8:39 a.m. The house was processed as a crime scene by investigators and the coroner, and officials described the matter as a deadly shooting while listing the manner of death as pending.

Shashonna was remembered locally as a recent St. Johns High School Class of 2024 track and field athlete and as a member of an extended Wadmalaw family. Funeral arrangements included a visitation on August 4 at Pasley’s Mortuary, a celebration of life on August 5 at Royal Missionary Baptist Life and Banquet Center, and interment at Salem Baptist Church Cemetery on Harts Bluff Road. Authorities repeatedly stated there had been no arrests and asked anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone on Wadmalaw Island or nearby Johns Island saw or heard anything related to Boy Scout Road that morning, can you share what you know with investigators?