Jose Miguel Ocasio Torres, a 33-year-old Hispanic man, was fatally shot during Fourth of July celebrations in 2024 at the Garners Crossing Apartments in Columbia, South Carolina. The Richland County Coroner identified him as the victim of the holiday shooting that disrupted the community’s festivities.

The Columbia Police Department investigated the incident and arrested 50-year-old Pedro Leon-Rodriguez on charges connected to Ocasio Torres’s death. A viewing was held at Leevy’s Funeral Home Chapel on Taylor Street in Columbia, where friends, family, and community members gathered to remember him.

What information might help clarify the events that led to the shooting or who witnessed it?