Idris Chance Ali Cooper was 34 when he was found dead on the morning of July 21, 2024, in the parking lot of the Colonial Gardens apartment complex in Florence, South Carolina. Cooper was discovered on the ground next to a running vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was known to his family as Bubba, a South Florence High School class of 2009 graduate who played football and was a father to Cen’seir and Ka’Mani Cooper.

Within a day investigators identified a suspect, 41-year-old Matthew Barry. On July 22 officers and deputies went to the Brittany Place apartments to serve a search warrant and a murder warrant on Barry. He barricaded himself inside an apartment, a standoff followed, and an exchange of gunfire during an officer-involved shooting left Barry struck; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division was called to investigate. No officers were injured.

If anyone has information about Cooper, his movements that morning, or the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.