Black Teen Fatally Shot in South Carolina by Gas Station Owner Who Falsely Accused Him of Theft

A 14-year-old black boy named Cyrus Carmack-Belton was wrongly suspected of stealing water bottles from a gas station in Columbia, South Carolina and shot in the back, dying from his injuries.
The gas station owner, Rick Chow, confronted Cyrus with no evidence of theft and shot him as he was running away off the property.
Chow was arrested and charged with murder while outrage and protests emerged over racial profiling and police brutality in the Black community.
Cyrus was remembered as an intelligent, charismatic student who dreamed of becoming a tattoo artist.
Chow had two prior incidents of confronting alleged shoplifters and firing his weapon but had not been charged previously.