De’Aruion Hickman, 21, was fatally shot at Young’s convenience store on the 400 block of Main Street in Bishopville, South Carolina, on the night of March 25, 2023. Lee County Coroner Larry Logan confirmed Hickman as the victim; an autopsy was scheduled to determine the exact cause of death. The shooting was one of two separate fatal incidents in Lee County that evening.

The Bishopville Police Department opened an immediate homicide investigation. Within days police announced they had identified and arrested two suspects: 19-year-old Zayquawn Malik Jones and 23-year-old Robert Don Peoples, Jr. Both were charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime and were held at the Sumter County Detention Center pending a bond hearing.

Anyone with information about De’Aruion’s death or who was at Young’s convenience store that night is asked to come forward.