A witness walking past a home on the 1000 block of College Avenue Extension in Rock Hill spotted a man who appeared to be dead on the back porch and called police. When officers arrived, they confirmed the 33-year-old man was deceased, then found a 31-year-old woman dead inside the house from multiple stab wounds.
Police say the two had previously been in a relationship, and detectives believe the man stabbed the woman to death before going outside and taking his own life, according to WSOC-TV. The outlet reports the discovery happened Monday, with officers responding to the College Avenue address after the initial call about the man on the porch.
As of the latest reporting, authorities had not released either person's identity. The Herald notes the York County Coroner had not yet identified the two people, and police had not released a motive or said how long the two had been dead before they were found. The investigation by police and the coroner remains ongoing, per the same account.
What Investigators Have Not Said
Much about the case remains unknown. The paper's report makes clear that the sequence of events — the man killing the woman before dying by suicide — is described as an investigative belief attributed to officers, not a finalized determination. No motive has been offered publicly, and the exact timeline of when the two died before they were discovered has not been disclosed.
The case was also reported by Queen City News, which described the pair as former partners and noted that neither has been publicly identified by authorities.
A Broader Pattern in South Carolina
The Rock Hill case adds to a grim statewide tally. South Carolina recorded 59 domestic violence homicides in 2024, according to the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Among victim-offender relationships tied to those intimate-partner killings, 45% were classified as boyfriend/girlfriend relationships rather than spouses, the coalition's fact sheet shows.
The same report estimates that at least 30% of aggravated domestic violence incidents in the state go unreported to law enforcement each year, even as South Carolina logs an average of more than 30,000 intimate-partner violence cases annually. Those figures underscore how often domestic violence cases surface only after they turn fatal, as appears to have happened on College Avenue Extension this week.
Rock Hill police and the York County Coroner's Office continue to investigate. No further details about the identities of the man and woman, or what led to the encounter, had been made public as of the latest reports.
