On the night of November 4, 2018, Malcolm Jerome Washington, a 27-year-old Black man from North Charleston, was shot while standing in the area of Rivers Avenue and Target Street with a woman he knew. Police arrived just before 10 p.m. after reports of shots fired and found Malcolm suffering from a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman with him was grazed in the leg.

Obituaries note Malcolm entered into eternal rest on November 4, 2018, as the son of the late Joseph J. Washington Jr. and Sandra Washington Williams; his funeral service was held November 10 at Fielding Home for Funerals and he was buried at Payne Memorial Cemetery on James Island. Within days of the shooting, police arrested 19-year-old Javion Omar Mazyck on November 15 and, on November 21, arrested 22-year-old Allen Bellamy; both were charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime in connection with the shooting.

Publicly accessible records show later arrests and convictions for Mazyck and arrest history for Allen Trevor Bellamy, but do not clearly state the final courtroom resolution of the murder and attempted-murder charges tied to Malcolm’s death. Did anyone in the area that night see something that wasn’t included in news reports?