Dwight Alexander Alex Bennett, a 20-year-old White man from Landrum, South Carolina, was killed on April 11, 2024. Loved ones remembered him as kind-hearted, sweet-natured, and generous, and noted he was a graduate of Landrum High School with what they called a beautiful soul.

On the afternoon of April 11, Polk County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting at the Ashley Meadows Apartments in Columbus, North Carolina, arriving shortly after 1 p.m. Bennett was found dead at the scene; a second person was also shot and taken to a hospital. Investigators say the shooting arose from a dispute involving several people.

Court statements reported that 19-year-old William Nelson Campbell of South Carolina had gone to the complex to sell marijuana and was allegedly assaulted before firing a handgun about six times, four shots striking Bennett, including a fatal chest wound. Campbell was arrested at the scene and charged.

If anyone has information about the events at Ashley Meadows Apartments on April 11, 2024, please come forward.