Terry Hardin

In the spring of 2021, a concerned friend's call for a welfare check led to a grim discovery in a home on Lowry Row in York, South Carolina. Inside, police found the body of 35-year-old Thomas Hardin. Hardin, a Black individual who identified as a woman and used both male and female pronouns, had been shot and killed. The nature of the scene immediately prompted a homicide investigation by the York Police Department.

The investigation quickly zeroed in on a suspect with a violent history ...