10 years after Rock Hill man gunned down, police seek public’s help in cold case
Rock Hill’s Alice Walker said Monday that someone knows who killed her son, Daniel Ervin, 10 years ago.
“The answers are out there,” Walker said at a news conference about the unsolved cold case. “I just pray that God touches hearts.”
In a new push to close the case that has so far eluded an arrest, police in Rock Hill created a task force and are asking for the public’s help to find those answers in the 2013 case.
Ervin, 29, was shot outside his family’s home on Pebble Road in southern Rock Hill in October 2013. Despite years of investigation, no one has ever been charged.
Ervin’s mother and one of his children, a daughter now age 18, said at the news conference they wanted closure in the death.
Ervin was confronted by an unknown subject outside the family home when he was killed, Capt. Brent Allmon of the police department’s criminal investigation division said. Ervin had been at a family gathering before the shooting, Allmon said.
The Rock Hill Police Department has teamed up with South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division and the York County Coroner’s Office to create a task force aimed at solving the case.
Police seek public’s help
Rock Hill police detective Tayler Tucker said police are looking for people to come forward in the case. The news conference was held outside a business on Saluda Street, about two blocks from where Ervin was slain.
“Investigators are looking for any additional information that may help them understand why anyone would want to hurt Daniel,” Tucker said.
Police declined to say if they have any suspects in the case, but Tucker said the investigation with Rock Hill and state police remains ongoing.
“Critical evidence has been collected,” Tucker said.
Police did not give details about what evidence has been collected in the decade since Ervin died, citing the ongoing investigation.
Almost two dozen Rock Hill detectives and top command staff were at the news conference Monday, then a team of officers did a canvass of the neighborhood afterward.
Anyone with information is asked to call the task force at 803-329-5596.
This story was originally published October 16, 2023 at 3:15 PM.
