On the night of July 9, 2024, gunfire in the 300 block of Hickory Ridge Drive in Columbia, South Carolina, left two 22-year-old men dead and a third person wounded. Deputies from the Richland County Sheriff’s Office found a vehicle in a yard with Dominic Goodwin and another 22-year-old Columbia resident, Xavier J. Hopkins, unresponsive; both were pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds. Multiple shell casings were scattered in the roadway.

A third victim had been shot multiple times inside a nearby home and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Deputies described the incident as a possible drive-by shooting. Eight days later a 16-year-old was arrested in Atlanta and charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder; Sheriff Leon Lott said the motive appeared to be a vendetta between the shooter and the victims. Authorities are continuing to investigate and have not ruled out additional suspects.

Was anyone in the community aware of a dispute involving these men or saw activity in the Hickory Ridge Drive area that night?