Ahmed Issam ’Ed’ Fallous was 25 when he was fatally shot in Anderson, South Carolina, on Thursday, May 26, 2016. A Greenville native and Westside High School alumnus, Fallous ran several small businesses, including Executive Landscaping, Kid’z Kut’z and Golden Shearz, and was remembered for his bright smile and friendly demeanor.

An autopsy found a gunshot wound to his left back that produced a hemopneumothorax, a blow to the forehead with a handgun, and a defensive-type wound on his left hand. Emergency medical responders pronounced him dead at the scene. Investigators arrested a suspect, Stephen G. Parten, in Tennessee several days after the shooting while he was driving a stolen vehicle; an Anderson County grand jury later indicted Parten on multiple charges including murder, kidnapping, attempted murder, weapons possession during a violent crime, grand larceny and first-degree burglary.

Parten was tried before a jury in February 2019 and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and battery, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, second-degree burglary and grand larceny for his role in Fallous’s death.