BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTOC) - Beaufort Police are searching for the suspect in a deadly apartment complex shooting over the weekend.

The deadly shooting happened here at the Cross Creek Apartments early Sunday.

“When the shots went off, she woke me up asking me to go check it out, but by the time I got to the balcony, you could hear the car skidding off and all that,” Beaufort resident, Tyshawn Payne said. “By the time I made it downstairs, his old lady was saying, ‘Help, help, call help.’”

When police arrived, they say they found 20-year-old St. Helena Island man, James Jenkins, had been shot several times.

Neighbors say Jenkins didn’t live at the complex but was visiting.

Police tried to help him until an ambulance arrived, which took him to the hospital, where he later died due to his in

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