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Cyrus Monroe Carmack-Belton

Case from Columbia, SC dated May 28, 2023

Victim Details

Cyrus Monroe Carmack-Belton

Male

Black / African American

Columbia

SC

2023-05-28

14

Cyrus

Monroe Carmack-Belton

06/29/2026

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In the early evening of May 28, 2023, a trip to a convenience store in Columbia, South Carolina, turned fatal for 14-year-old Cyrus Monroe Carmack-Belton, a Black male. The teenager was at the Xpress Mart Shell station on Parklane Road when the store's owner, Rick Chow, who is Asian, wrongly accused him of shoplifting four bottles of water. Surveillance footage later confirmed that Carmack-Belton had returned the items to the cooler.

A verbal confrontation ensued, after which Carmack-Belt ...
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  • AP News: Store owner charged with murder in Black teen's killing fights warrant over business records
  • ABC News: South Carolina teen killed after shoplifting allegations remembered as 'intelligent, humorous'
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    I've been thinking a lot about Cyrus's case and the surveillance footage that's been circulating onl... ...Read More
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    Has anyone else been following the testimony from some of the eyewitnesses in Cyrus's case? I was re... ...Read More
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    I've been following the trial of the store owner who shot Cyrus Monroe Carmack-Belton, and something... ...Read More
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