A confrontation tied to a robbery left two dead in Columbia, South Carolina. On the evening of Thursday, April 11, 2024, deputies found 36-year-old Marvin D. Archie and 16-year-old Jayden Scales-Amiker with fatal gunshot wounds in the 100 block of Angel Garden Way near Decker Boulevard; both were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say the violence grew out of a robbery the day before in which a minor was robbed near the Food Lion on Decker Boulevard by four juveniles.

Police allege that during the April 11 confrontation a 14-year-old male acquaintance of Scales-Amiker opened fire with a pistol that had been illegally modified with a switch to make it fully automatic. Archie was reportedly unarmed and believed to have been shot by that suspect; investigators say the shooter lost control of the modified weapon and accidentally struck Scales-Amiker. The 14-year-old also suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound and was hospitalized, then arrested after medical clearance and placed in the juvenile detention center on multiple charges.

If anyone in the Angel Garden Way or Decker Boulevard areas saw the events of April 10–11 or has information about the robbery and subsequent confrontation, please come forward.