4 SC teens charged with murder, attempted murder, sheriff says. About 70 rounds were fired
Four teenagers suspected of shooting more than 71 rounds, killing a man and critically injuring a woman are in custody, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.
At around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 28, deputies responded to a shooting at the 1000 block of Miles Bowman Road. They discovered a 23-year-old man shot dead in the front passenger seat of a car and a woman with a gunshot wound to her upper body laying outside the vehicle, according to a news release.
Miles Bowman Road is in the Irmo area about four miles from Dutch Fork High School.
An investigation revealed that four shooters were responsible for the man’s death and the woman’s critical injury, a news release said.
A day later on Jan. 29, deputies located and arrested two of the suspected shooters — 19-year-old Peyton Kirby and a 15-year-old — at a residence, according to the news release. Both teens were charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
Kirby was booked at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center while the 15-year-old was transported to the state Department of Juvenile Justice.
On Jan. 31, a third suspected shooter — Jackson Layne, 17 — was arrested in northeast Richland County, and, likewise, charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, a news release said. He was booked at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Seven days later, deputies arrested a 16-year-old suspected of involvement in the shooting, who faces the same charges as the three other suspects. That teen also was booked at DJJ.
Finally, another 16-year-old was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the murder, according to a news release.
The shooting, investigators say, stemmed from an “altercation between the four murder suspects and the deceased victim at a another location shortly before the shooting,” the release said.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott called the shooting “a tragedy.”
“We have one young man that lost his life and four teens that won’t have a life anymore because they’re in jail, charged with murder,” Lott said in a news release. “Our investigators will continue to solve every murder in Richland County, but it takes our whole community to stand up against this violence in the first place.”
Information about the condition of the critically injured female, who was transported to an area hospital, was not readily available.
Neither victim has been publicly identified by authorities.
This story was originally published February 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM.
