On a summer afternoon in 2022, 16-year-old Cameron Carroll was killed in a shooting that also claimed the lives of two of his friends in Aiken, South Carolina. Cameron, a Black male, was a student at Aiken High School, as were the other victims, 17-year-old Willie L. Garrett IV and 16-year-old Ivan Perry. Family members said that Cameron and Willie were first cousins.
The violence erupted on Sunday, June 26, 2022, in the front yard of a home on Wadley Drive.
Witnesses told deputies from the Aiken County Sheriff's Office that the three teenagers had been in an argument with three other males just before shots were fired. When deputies arrived around 1:30 p.m., they found all three victims on the ground with gunshot wounds. Willie and Ivan were pronounced dead at the scene. Cameron was rushed to Augusta University Medical Center, but he later died from his injuries. The three suspects fled in a black, four-door Hyundai sedan and were last seen turning onto Edgefield Highway.
The investigation, which authorities described as gang-related, quickly led to the identification of three suspects. The first, 18-year-old Xabian Bailey, was arrested late on the day of the shooting. A second suspect, 15-year-old Antonio Jones, turned himself in to the sheriff’s office on June 30. The third suspect, 20-year-old Alvin Artis IV, remained at large for several months, prompting a manhunt. On November 30, 2022, he was apprehended without incident in Lawton, Oklahoma, by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and local police. He was held in Oklahoma before being extradited to South Carolina.
In January 2024, a hearing determined that Antonio Jones would be charged as an adult. Later that year, Xabian Bailey was convicted of murder and sentenced to three life terms in prison. Antonio Jones subsequently pleaded guilty to three counts of voluntary manslaughter and received three 25-year sentences.
The final defendant, Alvin Artis IV, went to trial after an earlier proceeding ended in a mistrial. During the week-long trial, the defense claimed the victims were armed, but prosecutors argued this was unsupported by evidence and contradicted by witness testimony. In September 2025, a jury found Artis guilty on three counts of murder, as well as a weapons charge and unlawful transportation of a machine gun. He was sentenced to three concurrent life terms in prison, bringing the final chapter of the case to a close.
