Conway Police are looking for a teenager they say is connected to a homicide that happened Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators say it happened around 3:00 p.m. on Bayside Avenue.
A woman flagged down officers and told them someone was shot, and officers found a woman with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the upper torso area.
The victim went to Conway Medical Center, where she later died.
Horry County coroner Robert Edge identifies the victim as 29 year old Monica L. Burroughs.
Teresa Cox said her best friend Monica Burroughs, 29 was a nice and loving person.
Cox said the most painful part about the events of Tuesday afternoon were not that she was shot in broad daylight in front of dozens of people, but that Burroughs’ four young children saw it all happen.
Cox said she and Burroughs were sitting in her SUV in front of Burroughs’ house on Bayside Avenue, when a girl came up to the passenger side, where Monica was sitting.
"By the time I looked its like they were tussling, so I got out my truck to come around to help her but by the time I got to the front of my truck, I heard a shot." said Cox.
She then ducked down behind her SUV and saw a girl she knows as Brittany running with a long silver gun in her hand behind some buildings.
After that, she turned her attention back to Monica.
Cox said, "I looked to the left, Monica was on, she was on the neighbor’s porch and when I went to look she was laying on her stomach and I called 911."
Teresa Cox said Burroughs and the girl she saw with the gun had had differences for a while.
"But for it to be that serious for her to get a gun and come back to her house I would never think that that would happen, it's not that serious. She has four kids and those kids saw what happened to their mom, along with me and it’s not right." said Cox.
Teresa Cox said Burroughs’ four young children are with their grandparents.
Edge says an autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow at Grand Strand Hospital.
Conway Police issued an arrest warrant for 17-year-old Brittany Alexis Johnson, for homicide.
Anyone with any more information is asked to call police.
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