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Authorities claim drug deal gone bad led to fatal shooting at apartment complex
Two brothers are charged with murder in what Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott called a drug deal gone bad.
Just after midnight on June 20, brothers Kenyatta D. Banister, 17, and Wilbert D. Guider, 19, met Kentjuan D. Wilson-Davenport in a parking lot on Rice Meadow Circle to buy an ounce of marijuana from him, Lott said.
There was a dispute over the price and shots were fired, according to police. Both Banister and Guider had guns, Lott said.
Officers arrived and found 23-year-old Wilson-Davenport of Gaston lying on the ground, according to an incident report. A gun and marijuana also were found at the scene.
Lott pointed to Wilson-Davenport’s death as another example of a senseless youth crime that has impacted two families.
“This shows the violence associated with drugs,” he said. “You don’t have to be a big time drug dealer” to be killed over a drug deal.
None of the people involved lived in or had any affiliation with the apartment complex, Lott said.
Officers questioned Guider early in the investigation after evidence suggested he was there when the shooting occurred. He was charged with obstruction of justice on June 25.
Lott said investigators were able to identify Banister and Guider through help from the community.
“The public is part of the solution,” he said.
Both Guider and Banister are in custody at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing before a circuit court judge.
Reach Tate at (803) 771-8549.
