FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S.C. — Fairfield County investigators want to know what led to a shooting at a large party on Saturday night that left one person dead and two others wounded.
A Fairfield County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said that deputies had been driving by and checking on a gathering of more than 100 people on West Peach Road on Saturday night after learning about it from a flyer. However, around 9:30 p.m., law enforcement was called back to the location due to a shooting.
When deputies arrived, they found two victims at the scene. They later learned of a third. One of the two they found at the scene has since died. The conditions of the other two were not clear.
The sheriff's office said the deceased was 21, and the other two victims were 22 and 20. Fairfield County Coroner Chris Hill has identified the deceased as Tyon Dremetrius Byrd of Winnsboro. Emergency medical services took Byrd from the scene on West Peach Road to the Medical University of South Carolina Fairfield Emergency Department, where he later died.
One witness told deputies they hadn't had any issues earlier in the night, but at some point, after the party moved to a nearby lot, the witness said they heard gunfire.
News19 spoke with neighbors on Sunday afternoon who were shocked by what transpired the previous night in what she describes as a nice neighborhood with kids and families.
"I came home from Columbia; I just saw all the lights and was just like, 'Oh, my God, what's going on?' We don't have that here," one resident said. "So, is somebody sick, or what's happening?"
Investigators are asking the public to help them find answers to the case. Investigators haven't yet uncovered who was behind the shooting or why it happened.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Byrd with Newberry Pathology on Wednesday, July 5.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office at 803-635-4141 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.