A late-evening dispute in Gaston, South Carolina, ended with 53-year-old John Darrick Rumph shot to death outside his home on Glenn Road. Investigators say the shooting followed an earlier confrontation that day between Rumph and another man; witnesses told deputies that the quarrel escalated when the other man returned to Rumph’s residence and fired multiple shots, striking Rumph once. The Lexington County Coroner pronounced Rumph dead at the scene.

Authorities identified 34-year-old Johnnie Quawnetel Mack of Columbia as the primary suspect. Mack turned himself in a few days later and was arrested on charges of murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A magistrate judge denied bond and Mack is being held at the Lexington County Detention Center.

Does anyone in the Gaston area have information about the earlier confrontation or saw either man that day?