Roberto Marquis Porter Jr was 28 when he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of August 22, 2021, after a dispute outside Club Apex on Birnie Street in downtown Gaffney, South Carolina. The altercation occurred just before 1 a.m.; officers found Porter in a parking lot across from the club with a fatal gunshot wound. EMS transported him to Cherokee Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.

Police say they had been called earlier that night to Club Apex to deal with a fight inside the establishment. Shortly after the shooting, Gaffney police arrested 19-year-old Quntavis Keshun Eison and charged him with Porter’s murder. Marquis, as he was known to family and friends, was born July 19, 1993, to Roberto and Sabrina Porter and was a father to two children and a stepfather to another. His funeral service was held August 30, 2021, at Green Bethel Baptist Church, where he was buried.

If anyone has information about the events outside Club Apex that night or knew Marquis, please come forward to assist the investigation.