In the early morning hours of Thursday, April 6, 2023, 51-year-old Timothy Barbee was shot inside a home on Hughes Street in Lancaster, South Carolina. Police were called about 1 a.m.; first responders found Barbee on the floor and he was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina-Lancaster, where he later died. Investigators found multiple shell casings at the scene and a dog inside the residence that had also been shot.

Lancaster Police Department detectives, the Lancaster County multijurisdictional violent crime task force, and the coroner’s office treated the death as a homicide and built an investigation that linked the fatal shooting to a burglary. In May 2023 detectives identified and arrested Derrick Brown in neighboring Kershaw County; he was booked on charges including murder, first-degree burglary, possession of a firearm during a violent crime, and malicious injury to animals and was held without bond.

Did anyone in the Lancaster area see or hear anything on Hughes Street the night of April 6, 2023, that could help investigators?