On January 28, 2023, two scenes in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, were tied to a single violent incident that left two people dead and two others wounded. Officers responding to a call on Birch Creek Road in Andrews found 30-year-old Kimberly Rowell and 52-year-old John David Leone with fatal gunshot wounds; both were pronounced dead at the scene. Later that same day, a separate shooting on Acadian Lane in the Kingstree area produced two more gunshot victims who were taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Investigators determined the two shootings were connected. Authorities arrested 36-year-old Lorenzo Cooper of Kingstree and charged him with two counts of murder for the deaths of Rowell and Leone, two counts of attempted murder for the injured victims, two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and one count of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division assisted the Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office in the investigation.

Did anyone in the area know Kimberly Rowell or have information about either scene that could help clarify what happened?