Kenneth Andrew Latroy Lomax sat in a chair out back when someone ended his life with a bullet. The 36-year-old lived right there on Quinn Street in Anderson. Deputies got the call just after 11:30 Thursday morning about a man who would not respond. They found him already gone in the backyard.
Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore and his team checked the body right away. The wound came from a gun. That made it a homicide from the start. No one has stepped forward with a name or a face for the shooter. The sheriff’s office and the coroner’s office keep digging into what happened that morning.
Folks who knew Kenneth say he was just another guy trying to get by in that part of town. The yard sits in a stretch where people scrape along with tents and old trailers. Life there gets rough. This time it got deadly for him.
An autopsy is set so the doctors can pin down every detail of the shot that killed him. Investigators walk the property looking for shell casings, footprints, anything that points to who pulled the trigger. So far the case stays quiet on suspects.
The sheriff’s office told the public the shooting looks tied only to that one spot. No wider threat sits out on the streets of Anderson. Still, the quiet leaves family and neighbors with a hole where Kenneth used to be.
He was 36 years old. That is young enough to have years left. Instead the clock stopped in his own backyard under the October sky. The officers work the file while the rest of the county goes about its day.
People who cared about him now wait for answers that may take time. The chairs and the tents stay in place on Quinn Street. Kenneth Andrew Latroy Lomax does not.
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