Man arrested and charged in deadly shooting at block party

A 19-year-old Heath Springs man has been charged in a fatal shooting at a block party Saturday in Rock Hill, detectives announced Friday evening.

Police say D'markieoun Ji'shae Clyburn shot and killed 44-year-old Montest Mincey. The mother of three was acting as a peacemaker when she was killed, neighbors said.

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A 21-year-old man was killed and two others were injured.

The shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. on Southland Drive.

Clyburn was charged with murder. He was arrested without incident and taken to the Rock Hill Jail, police said.

“I’m extremely excited,” Inez DeWitt, Mincey’s aunt, said of the arrest. “I am extremely delighted.”

The week was difficult, but the arrest lifted the morale of the loved ones.

“Montest was a wonderful person. A wonderful young lady,” DeWitt said. “I mean, that smile was just contagious. You couldn't be near Montest without smiling.

The family does not believe Mincey and the suspect knew each other.

“If she was killed by a stray bullet, the family is not looking for excuses,” the aunt said. “Sorry, that doesn’t bring her back.” Being sorry doesn't bring her back, because not only was she hit, but another young man was killed, and other people were hit, and you may have disrupted an entire community event.

Dewitt said she was very angry.

“I'm very saddened, my niece, they took her away and she has three children that she left behind without a mother, a caring mother, a loving mother,” she said.

The Rock Hill Police Department has established a dedicated tip line: 803-325-2678, as well as an online community portal.