HARDEEVILLE - The Hardeeville Police Department is investigating the Friday shooting death of Joseph Kilpatrick, 24, of Pineland. At 11:36 p.m., officers were called to an apartment in Jenny Green Apartments on Thatcher Road in response to reports of gunshots, according to police reports.
Kilpatrick was found on a couch in the apartment and was pronounced dead at the scene.
He had been living for a few weeks in the apartment in which his sister and her family lived. At the time of the shooting, Kilpatrick was watching TV and was alone in the house with her children, who were upstairs in the bedrooms, police said.
According to reports, three black men wearing masks entered the apartment through the rear door. Multiple gunshots were heard and the suspects fled the scene.
No further descriptions were available and no motive has been determined at this time.
Crime scene technicians with the State Law Enforcement Division responded and processed the crime scene.
Anyone with information is to contact Investigator Sgt. Alexis Webber at 226-0973 or Jasper County Dispatch at 784-6668.