Arrest made in nearly 25-year-old SC cold case, sheriff says

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/FOX Carolina) - An arrest was announced in a nearly 25-year-old South Carolina cold case on Monday, FOX Carolina reports.

Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said Andretti Mondez Goss, 55, was arrested in connection with the death of a 29-year-old mother named Jennifer Lawson.

Officials said on June 26, 2001, a small, laid-back get-together turned into a larger party along Camelot Forest Drive in Belton. During the gathering, three men who were unfamiliar with the group of friends arrived in a dark-colored sedan and got into an argument with an individual.

According to officials, the men were asked to leave and while on their way out, they stopped their sedan in the driveway and fired at least one shot from inside the car. The bullet passed through a trailer wall, went through a man’s shoulder and fatally hit Lawson in the head.

“The 29-year-old mother was truly an innocent bystander and victim who was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies said Lawson’s cold case was reopened over the summer in 2025. As a result, Goss has been charged with murder, assault and battery with intent to kill, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and discharging a firearm into a dwelling.

Officials said this case remains an active investigation and more arrests are possible.

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