A midday shooting at the Walsh Drive Apartments in Hardeeville, South Carolina, on June 18, 2024, left two residents dead. The incident began with a dispute in the complex parking lot involving 38-year-old Bernard Lyles, another resident, Alesia Dykes, and 49-year-old Charles Saunders. Saunders allegedly followed Lyles and the 40-year-old Dykes into an apartment and opened fire. Dykes was pronounced dead at the scene; Lyles was taken to Coastal Carolina Hospital in critical condition and later died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Hardeeville police conducted a multi-hour manhunt that led to Saunders’s arrest about 15 miles away in Ridgeland; he was taken into custody at a Waffle House. Authorities charged him with two counts of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is assisting the ongoing investigation, and no motive has been released. If anyone witnessed the dispute in the parking lot or the events that followed, please share what was seen or heard.