On the evening of August 27, 2023, 18-year-old Jorge Lopez was shot while driving on Etheridge Road in Yemassee, South Carolina. Lopez, a student at Battery Creek High School, was struck multiple times and taken to Coastal Carolina Hospital, where he later died. A 16-year-old fellow student, Jaquavios K. Williams Howard, was also shot and pronounced dead at the scene. A female passenger was wounded and survived with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office opened the investigation and later transferred it to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. As of late 2023, no suspects had been publicly identified and no arrests announced; the motive and circumstances leading up to the shooting remain undisclosed.

If anyone has information about that night or knew Jorge, Jaquavios, or the vehicle’s occupants, please share what you know with investigators.