A New Year’s Day outing on January 1, 2020, ended in tragedy near Walterboro, South Carolina, when 9-year-old Lauren Danielle Drawdy and her 30-year-old father, Kim Daniel Drawdy, were fatally shot during a deer drive on Barracada Road. Both were hit in the chest by buckshot pellets, according to the coroner.

Lauren, a fourth-grader at Cottageville Elementary School known as Lolo, often hunted and fished with her father and had harvested her first deer months earlier. The shooter was identified as Sean Peterson, a member of the same hunting party, who said he mistook the pair for deer before firing. Peterson was arrested and charged with two counts of negligent use of a firearm while engaged in hunting resulting in death; he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in jail followed by four years of probation.

Anyone who knew Lauren or the Drawdy family, or who has information about that day, is asked to come forward.