Omarion Garvin, an 18-year-old resident of St. Helena, was fatally shot the evening of Friday, December 22, 2023, in Bluffton, South Carolina. He was found lying in the road on Buckingham Plantation Drive and was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining gunshot wounds.

The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a call about gunfire shortly after 10:30 p.m. Deputies also found 26-year-old Rasheen Dupont of Ridgeland dead from gunshot wounds in the shopping center parking lot on Fording Island Road, and a 25-year-old man injured and later taken to a hospital in Savannah. The locations of the victims suggested a violent incident that spanned multiple nearby spots including a parking lot and the Bluffton Parkway on-ramp to Fording Island Road.

By late December 2023 no arrests had been announced and no suspects had been publicly identified. Investigators were working to establish the sequence of events and whether the three men knew one another. If anyone has information about that night or saw activity in the Fording Island Road area after 10:30 p.m., please share what you know with investigators.