A homecoming festival in Greeleyville, South Carolina, ended in tragedy on October 7, 2023, when 62-year-old Dan Brock of Sumter was shot in the neck and died. Witnesses said a young man approached Brock, fired, and walked away. Security footage from a nearby bank showed a young Black male in a white t-shirt and blue jeans carrying a gun, approaching Brock, firing the shot, and leaving in a gray Ford Mustang.

Investigators identified a person of interest from the video. The man was named by his father after viewing the footage, and a search of the residence yielded three 9mm pistols. Ballistics testing matched one of those firearms to a single 9mm shell casing recovered at the scene. The person of interest, Rome Bay Jr., 20, was located in Tennessee and extradited to Williamsburg County on January 28, 2024, on charges of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Prosecutors described the shooting as seemingly random and said the suspect did not appear to know the victim. The family has expressed profound grief and a desire for justice.

If anyone attended the C.E. Murray Alumni Festival or saw the gray Ford Mustang that evening, did you notice anything that could help clarify the events?