Elijah Maurice Jones, a 38-year-old Black man from North Charleston, was shot and killed on February 16, 2024, on Wadmalaw Island. Deputies responded around 10 p.m. to the 6200 block of Maybank Highway after reports of a shooting and found Jones with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators determined a physical altercation had occurred earlier that evening between Jones and 34-year-old David Matthew Legare. Witnesses said others broke up the initial fight and Legare left, then returned about 30 minutes later when the fatal shooting happened. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office identified Legare as the suspect and arrested him on February 23, 2024; he was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime and booked into the Al Cannon Detention Center.

Family and friends held a celebration of Jones’s life on February 24, 2024, at New St. James Bethel AME Church, and he was buried at New Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery. Does anyone have information about the events on Maybank Highway that evening?