Man fired shotgun on Rock Hill house, on video, then killed teen hours later
After her 19-year-old daughter was gunned down in front of their Rock Hill home, Shifarnia McCullough said she wants answers about the man accused of the 11 p.m. Saturday killing after the same man fired a shotgun at her home’s door less than three hours earlier.
And Saturday’s shootings, the second of which killed Camariya Tidwell, came after the home on Mount Gallant Road was hit by gunfire days before, on Tuesday, May 12.
McCullough said Tuesday on the porch outside the house that Rock Hill police have investigated, but does not believe her family received the protection they should have. A police officer was guarding the home just before Camariya was killed, but left.
“I just feel as a middle class family, and I’m not going to racially profile this, but I think as a Black family not above the poverty level, we didn’t get what we should have got,” McCullough told The Herald in an interview.
“I’m mad at the man who took my daughter’s life, but I’m also mad at the Rock Hill Police Department,” she said. “They came out, but did they come and do what they should have did? No,” she said. “I ain’t got my baby. I’m making arrangements for my child, innocent, who ain’t bother nobody.”
Rock Hill Police Department spokesman Lt. Michael Chavis told The Herald in response that it is not accurate that the family did not receive services or investigation. He said all people receive the same police services regardless of race or class. Chavis also provided details about how police investigated the shootings.
“Everybody in the city gets our services,” Chavis said.
Doorbell camera shows shotgun blast at door
Police arrested Sean Xavier Hubbard, 34, of Clover, after the 11 p.m. Saturday shooting that killed Camariya.
She was not the intended target Saturday or May 12, Chavis said. He declined to say who police believe was the target in the shootings, citing the ongoing investigation.
Hubbard is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime in the 11 p.m. shooting. He is also charged with shooting into a dwelling in the shotgun blast into the home’s door around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, when no one was there. That shooting was captured on a doorbell camera the family had installed after the Tuesday shooting, Rock Hill police said.
That shocking video, obtained by WSOC-TV, The Herald’s news partner, shows a man police firing a shotgun covered by some material at the door. Chavis said that man is Hubbard.
Chavis said police believe Hubbard came back to the house on foot through neighboring properties and fired during the 11 p.m. incident that killed Camariya.
Hubbard was taken into custody at a home near Lake Wylie, with a Clover address, in the early morning hours Sunday after York County SWAT responded.
Hubbard has not been charged in the May 12 shooting and that case remains under investigation. Shotgun ammunition materials were recovered Saturday after the shootings at the home, but a different type of shell casings were recovered from the May 12 incident, Chavis said.
McCullough told The Herald she believed a different family member had met Hubbard through Facebook for Hubbard to do some auto mechanic work. Police did not comment on how or why Hubbard is believed to have targeted the house or any people in it, citing the ongoing probe.
A grieving mother said her daughter was “sweet”
McCullough told The Herald her daughter was a 2025 South Pointe High School graduate who loved her dog and her family and cared about others.
“Humble, the humblest child you ever want to meet,” McCullough said. “Sweet, loving, she had so much feelings for everybody. She cared.”
But the shootings that started May 12 and continued Saturday terrified McCullough, her daughter and McCullough’s son, she said.
“Me and my daughter and even my son were here petrified at this home,” she said.
McCullough said since her daughter’s death and the news and social media coverage, there have been questions about why she didn’t leave sooner.
“People say all this was going on, why didn’t you all leave,” McCullough said. “I’m not a millionaire, we couldn’t afford to leave.”
She said the family gathered together to protect their home and “we failed.”
After the May 12 shooting, she said she and Camariya canvassed neighbors asking for video footage of who could have shot at their house. McCullough’s Facebook page also shows her asking the public for help after the May 12 incident.
After the May 12 shooting, McCullough said she called police each day asking for updates but never met the detective assigned to the case. She said did get a phone call on Friday after being told the detective was at class before that.
Chavis, the police spokesman, said the detective assigned to the May 12 case had SWAT training Wednesday and had court Thursday in a double murder in which he was lead detective. Chavis added that police who responded to the May 12 incident were told by family of a possible suspect, but it wasn’t Hubbard.
Saturday shootings
McCullough said after the 8:30 p.m. shooting Saturday, family came to help, and they were preparing to leave when she could get the family “safe and situated.” She said she asked for police presence until they could get packed and find somewhere to go.
“My family came because they were trying to help me,” McCullough said. “We were sitting here, we were preparing to go. This man came up on the side of my house and took my daughter’s life.”
McCullough said she also has concerns about how long it took to identify Hubbard.
“This man shot through my door on camera broad as day, I had to go look him up on Facebook,” she said. “I’m blaming myself because I feel like I failed my child, but there are other avenues, other people, that have failed her as well.”
The police department sent eight officers Saturday after the 8:30 p.m. shooting who stayed for at least an hour, Chavis said. One officer stayed until around 10:15 p.m. or 10:20 p.m. in a parking lot across the street where he could watch the house — but he was then sent on another priority call, Chavis said. That officer only left after it did not appear that the family was loading items to leave the house, and the officer who left told the family they should not stay there, Chavis said.
The family had a right to stay at their home, but even after the officer advised the family to leave after 10 p.m., they did not, Chavis said. The officer was told by family they were not leaving, Chavis said.
Additionally, Rock Hill police had York County deputies go to a home at Lake Wylie where they thought Hubbard might be after the 8:30 shooting after Hubbard had been identified as a suspect, Chavis said. York deputies arrived, but did not find Hubbard, Chavis said.
After Camariya was killed, officers found Hubbard at that Lake Wylie address and arrested him early Sunday morning.
Chavis said police body camera videos from the May 12 incident and both Saturday shootings show the interaction between responding police and the family. He said the department would not release those videos publicly because the investigation remains ongoing.
In South Carolina, police body camera video does not fall under the state’s Freedom of Information Act for public access to the footage, but it can be released by police if they choose.
This story was originally published May 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM.
