Eduardo Aleata Graham, a 42-year-old Black man from Lake City, South Carolina, was shot and killed on the night of Saturday, October 21, 2017, on a rural stretch near where North Green Road meets Highway 341. Deputies from the Florence County Sheriff’s Office responded shortly before 11 p.m. to reports of gunfire and found two people shot; both were taken to hospital but Eduardo’s wounds proved fatal. The county coroner publicly identified him as the man who died, and his body was sent to the Medical University of South Carolina for autopsy.

Investigators said the shooting followed an argument between Eduardo and another man. By early November, police had arrested 23-year-old Herbert McDowell III of Lake City and charged him with murder, reporting that deputies linked him to the scene around 11:30 p.m. The surviving victim was treated in hospital; authorities described their investigation as ongoing at the time and did not disclose the argument’s subject. Family and friends remember Eduardo as a jokester and an entrepreneur who operated Graham Enterprises, and his name appears on a gun violence memorial for October 21, 2017.

Did anyone in the Lake City area witness that stretch of North Green Road on the night of October 21, 2017, or have information about what led to the argument?