Man wanted for a fatal New Year’s Eve shooting in Sumter turns himself in

(Courtesy: Sumter Police Dept.) Amani Kennedy

SUMTER CO., S.C. (WOLO) – Sumter Police say a man wanted for a fatal New Year’s Eve shooting turned himself in on Tuesday.

Amani Kennedy, 23, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, faces a murder charge after Channing Goodman, 46, was fatally shot.

According to investigators, Goodman was trying to break up a fight between two women outside a home on Hampton Avenue when Kennedy shot him.

Officers say they found him in the front yard and he was taken to Prisma Health Tuomey hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police say Kennedy, a family member and one of the women involved in the fight, left in a car before officers arrived.

He was taken to the Sumter County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.