Jamari Jashon Shields was 18 when he was shot on the afternoon of July 9, 2023, in the 1600 block of Ogden Street near Two Notch Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Police responded about 2:30 p.m.; officers found him with a gunshot wound to his upper body. A responding officer applied a tourniquet from a city-issued medical kit before EMS transported Shields to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Columbia Police say the shooting grew out of a planned meeting. Investigators allege Shields arranged to meet two other teenagers, 19-year-old Willie Lee Carter III and a 16-year-old. It is alleged that Carter and the younger teen stole a firearm from Shields and that a fatal shot followed the robbery. Both suspects were arrested within a day and booked at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on murder and related charges.

If anyone has information about Jamari Shields, the meeting on Ogden Street that day, or the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.