Muhammad Azziz Abdullah Johnson was a 29-year-old Black man from Bennettsville, South Carolina, who was shot and killed during a dance event on January 25, 2015. Local authorities treated the incident as a homicide; the scene of a community gathering turned into a crime scene with investigators responding that night. A teenager later turned himself in to law enforcement in connection with the shooting, and reporting names Deaundre Terrell Malachi as the person charged by the Bennettsville Police Department in 2015 for Johnson’s murder.

Beyond brief memorial listings and mentions in later crime reports, little public information about Johnson’s life before the shooting appears in the coverage.

If anyone knew Muhammad Azziz Abdullah Johnson or has information about the 2015 shooting, please share what can help clarify the case.