Columbia Police investigating shooting that killed 19-year-old woman near Fort Jackson

A 19-year-old Columbia woman was shot to death near Fort Jackson Monday morning.

Trinity Sanders was shot near Fort Jackson at around 5 a.m., according to a press release from the Richland County coroner’s office. The coroner’s office is working with the Columbia Police Department to investigate the matter, Coroner Naida Rutherford stated.

Details about Sanders’ death could not be confirmed as an autopsy had not been performed, Jeffrey Lampkin, a public information officer at the office, said Monday. He expects the autopsy to be done on Tuesday, he added.

Lampkin confirmed that Sanders was the only person known to have died at the scene of the homicide..

This is a developing story and may be updated.

This story was originally published July 5, 2021 at 3:52 PM.

Chiara Eisner

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Chiara Eisner investigates and reports high-impact stories across the state of South Carolina. She is the newspaper’s 2021 Journalist of the Year and the South Carolina Press Association’s Assertive Journalist of the Year. The Secrets of the Death Chamber series she reported for The State was a finalist in the national 2021 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award competition. Her reporting on the harvest of horseshoe crabs in South Carolina was part of the package that earned her honorable mention in the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for science journalists.