On the evening of July 23, 2016, a dispute near a fire station in the Booker T. Washington neighborhood of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, ended in gunfire that left 27-year-old Marquis Jamal Burgess and 26-year-old Dameion Hakeem Alston critically wounded. Firefighters responding to gunshots and pounding on their door found both men; Burgess was pronounced dead at 9:55 p.m. and Alston later died of his injuries.

Both Burgess and Calvin Derrell Ford were wearing GPS monitoring devices issued by the Horry County Sheriff’s Department because of prior legal issues; the devices placed both men at the scene when the shooting occurred. Witnesses said a verbal altercation between Ford and Burgess preceded the shots.

At a stand your ground hearing Ford testified that Burgess had assaulted him years earlier and that he acted in self-defense after a struggle in which a gun became available; the judge denied immunity and the case went to jury trial in November 2019. The jury acquitted Campbell of all charges, found Ford not guilty of Alston’s murder but guilty of Burgess’s murder and the weapons counts; a judge later imposed a life sentence and an appeal was heard. Did anyone in the Booker T. Washington neighborhood see or hear anything the night of July 23 that could add detail to what happened?