On the night of July 9, 2024, Xavier J. Hopkins, 22, was fatally shot in Columbia, South Carolina, alongside 22-year-old Dominic Goodwin. Deputies from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department found a vehicle in a yard on the 300 block of Hickory Ridge Drive at about 10 p.m.; both Hopkins and Goodwin were inside and were later pronounced dead at the scene. A third person was located inside a nearby home with multiple gunshot wounds; those injuries were not life-threatening.

Investigators described the incident as a double homicide that appears to have been a targeted ambush and possibly a drive-by, and suggested the killings were retaliatory street justice linked to an earlier unsolved murder that involved the brother of one of the suspects. Within eight days, a 16-year-old suspect was arrested in Atlanta after a standoff and charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Three more teenagers — a 17-year-old and two 16-year-olds — were later arrested; all four face charges including two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and possession of a firearm by a person under 18. The investigation into how the firearms were obtained is ongoing.

Did anyone in the Hickory Ridge Drive area see anything that night or have information about these arrests?