A large block party on Southland Drive in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on June 1, 2024, ended in gunfire and multiple victims. About 500 people had gathered; a fight broke out around 10 p.m. and shots were fired. Four people were hit. Twenty-one-year-old Maricus Dontae Kirk of nearby Lancaster and 44-year-old Montest Mincey were fatally wounded and later died at Piedmont Medical Center. Two other people, a 25-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, were wounded and survived.

In the days after the shooting, police made several arrests. Nineteen-year-old D’markieoun Clyburn was charged with the murders of Maricus Kirk and Montest Mincey. Quantrel Jaheim Barrino, 18, Tyquarious Queoveon Davis, 24, and Marques Lavon Pearson, 20, were charged as accessories in connection with Mincey’s death. Reports indicate the people killed were innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire. Anyone with information about the events that night is asked to come forward.