A longtime feud ended in gunfire at the Tap Ultra Lounge on South Jacob Smart Boulevard in Ridgelay, South Carolina, leaving 29-year-old Albert Heyward dead. The violence began shortly before 1:30 a.m. on July 23, 2023, after a physical fight between Heyward and Herbert Dashawn Ford. Minutes later, investigators say 19-year-old Lavent Altobby Frazier fired more than a dozen rounds inside the nightclub. Heyward was struck multiple times, taken to Coastal Carolina Hospital, and died that morning.

Authorities arrested Ford, 22, of Yemassee, and charged him and 22-year-old Kevin Jamol Young, also of Yemassee, with being accessories to murder. A warrant was issued for Frazier on a murder charge, and he was later taken into custody; investigators say he was also charged in an earlier Beaufort County fatal shooting. The shooting is described as the culmination of a years-old conflict between Frazier and Heyward.