A 3-year-old boy, Antonio Kamani Burgess II, was killed by a gunshot to the head during a domestic confrontation in Johnsonville, South Carolina, on the late evening of September 13, 2025. Antonio was seated in the back of a car on Midway Highway when a single bullet struck him. He was taken to the Johnsonville Rescue Squad around 9:25 p.m., but his injuries were fatal.

The incident began when the child’s mother was in a car with another driver and was confronted by her boyfriend, Joseph Waterman Jr. Waterman had been brought to the location by Kenneth Washington Jr. An altercation followed in which Waterman allegedly assaulted the mother and the driver; during that assault, Waterman reportedly struck the driver with a handgun and the weapon discharged, the bullet striking Antonio. After the shooting, Waterman and Washington fled.

Kenneth Washington Jr., 36, of Hemingway has been arrested and charged with murder and was booked into the Florence County Detention Center. Joseph Waterman Jr. remains at large and is wanted on a murder charge and described by authorities as armed and dangerous. The child’s family called him Juju.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation on Midway Highway or has information about Waterman’s whereabouts, please come forward.