Christian George Wright Jr., 20, a Black man, was shot and killed at Zip’s Car Wash on Rivers Avenue in North Charleston on the evening of September 27, 2023. Officers were dispatched about 7:48 p.m. to reports of shots fired and found Wright on the ground in the car wash area, wounded and bleeding. Police applied emergency care before medics transported him, but the injury proved fatal.

Investigators treated the incident as a homicide and worked to reconstruct the minutes before Wright fell and identify who had been with him. Authorities did not initially release his identity publicly; by the next morning police announced an arrest. Jeremy Diquan Keyes, 27, of North Charleston, was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, with jail records showing a booking at 1:55 a.m. on September 28, 2023, and later descriptions listing him as held without bond. Wright was from the Ladson area and services were planned in early October 2023.

If anyone was at or near Zip’s Car Wash that night or has information about what happened, please share what you know.