Tevon Goodman was killed in Kingstree, South Carolina, on July 7, 2025, after gunfire erupted near the Gardner Court Apartments. He was a 30-year-old Black / African American man. The Williamsburg County Coroner’s Office publicly identified him that same day and said an autopsy would be performed at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
At first, the town was left with only fragments of what had happened.
Reports indicated authorities had not released details about the circumstances of the shooting, and no arrest was publicly announced in the immediate aftermath. What was known was where it ended: on a stretch associated with Railroad Avenue, where officers arrived to find a person dead at the scene and attempted to render aid before the coroner pronounced him deceased.
In the days that followed, grief moved from the street back into homes, churches, and gathering places. Online funeral information listed services in Kingstree through Henryhand Funeral Homes, with a viewing scheduled for July 15 and a funeral service on July 16 at Clauddie Henryhand Memorial Chapel on Thurgood Marshall Highway.
More than a month later, investigators said the case had reached a turning point. On August 19, 2025, Kingstree Police reported that Charles Robert Britt was taken into custody after an operation at a residence on Queen Circle that ended with a standoff and his surrender. Police said Britt was charged with murder and with possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, and that he was transported to the Williamsburg County Detention Center.
According to the police account described in reporting, investigators concluded Britt had traveled to the location to meet Goodman, and that during that meeting he allegedly shot him, striking him fatally. Kingstree Police described the investigation as ongoing, and public reporting did not describe a trial date or a final court outcome at the time those updates were released.
