Seventeen-year-old Kelvin T. Simmons Jr, known as Jay or Kel, was fatally shot on the evening of March 17, 2023, at the Marrington Village apartments off Harbour Lake Drive in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Deputies from the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office found Simmons on the apartment complex basketball court with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. He was a resident of Goose Creek and had attended Goose Creek High School before switching to homeschooling, and was remembered for his love of football and basketball.

The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into the homicide. Anyone with information that could assist investigators is urged to contact the Sheriff’s Office. Did anyone in the area know Kelvin or see anything that night?