Late on the morning of September 10, 2018, gunfire on Padgett Street in Seneca, South Carolina, led to a 911 call and the discovery of two men shot dead in a yard. Victims were 54-year-old Timothy Wayne Caldwell and 29-year-old David Thomas Tranah; both had been fatally shot in what investigators described as a double homicide.

Investigators traced the killings to an area known as The Compound, described as having a reputation for drug activity. Law enforcement arrested 18-year-old Steven Lee Reynolds at a home on Coffee Road within a day; police said Reynolds had gone to The Compound to collect a debt believed to be drug-related and that the encounter escalated to the fatal shootings. Reynolds also faced outstanding warrants for distribution of methamphetamine and heroin.

In November 2019 Reynolds, then 20, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and related charges and received a 35-year prison sentence. Did anyone in Seneca have contact with Caldwell or know more about The Compound around September 2018?