A 19-year-old woman has been shot dead outside her family’s home in South Carolina at the end of a week of escalating threats that began when a relative hired a man online to fix a car — culminating in a murder that left her family devastated and a suspect facing a murder charge after a SWAT standoff.
Camariya Tidwell was shot and killed at around 11pm on Saturday outside her family’s home on Mount Gallant Road in Rock Hill, York County. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her family told investigators she was not the intended target of the attack.
The suspected gunman, Sean Xavier Hubbard, 34, of Clover, South Carolina, had been involved in a dispute with a family member who had hired him through an online platform to carry out car repair work. The relationship broke down when the family dismissed him from the job. What followed was a week of threats before the situation turned fatal.
Earlier on Saturday, Hubbard allegedly fired a shotgun through the front door of the home while it was unoccupied. Doorbell camera footage captured him brandishing the weapon. The family also reported that shots had previously been fired through a bedroom window while children were sleeping inside — a detail that underscores the degree to which the threat had been escalating before Tidwell was killed.
Hubbard returned to the address later that night and shot Tidwell outside the home before fleeing. He was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after a SWAT standoff on Fig Branch Road near Lake Wylie, approximately 20 miles from the scene. He has been charged with murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and discharging a firearm into a dwelling. A judge denied him bond.
Tidwell’s family described her as kind and loving, and expressed both profound grief and deep frustration at the week of escalating threats that preceded her death. Rock Hill Police are continuing their investigation.
