Family warned police for a week before stalker killed Camariya Tidwell

Camariya Tidwell’s family says they spent a week trying to get police to stop a stalker after shots were fired into their Rock Hill home, only to watch the violence end with Tidwell dead in her front yard. Police said Tidwell was not the intended target, but her relatives say the warning signs were already there: an earlier shooting through the house, repeated calls for help, and a man they believed would come back.

The fatal shooting happened around 11 p.m. Saturday, May 16, 2026, at a home in the 700 block of Mount Gallant Road near Anderson Road in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Family members said the trouble started Tuesday, May 12, when someone fired four shots into the house while relatives, including children, were inside. After that attack, they installed security cameras.

Those cameras, the family said, later captured the suspect returning Saturday evening and firing through the front door while the house was empty. Family members said they kept contacting police and even asked officers to stay while they packed to leave, afraid the gunman would return before they could get out.

Rock Hill police said about eight officers responded to the earlier shooting call and spent roughly an hour and a half investigating. Investigators got a suspect description and vehicle information, and they checked a prior address with help from the York County Sheriff’s Office, but they did not find him before the killing. Authorities later arrested 34-year-old Sean Xavier Hubbard of Clover early Sunday, May 17, in a SWAT-assisted operation on Fig Branch Road near Lake Wylie. He was charged with murder, weapons violations, and a separate count tied to firing into a dwelling, and he was held without bond.

The family said Hubbard had previously worked on a relative’s car after being found through social media, but the relationship turned when a cousin told him she no longer wanted him working on the vehicle and blocked him after he allegedly threatened her. Relatives said the weeks-long spiral should have been enough to trigger a faster intervention, especially after gunfire hit the home twice.

Tidwell’s mother described her daughter as kind, loving, compassionate, and “the angel.” For her family, the question now is not whether Hubbard was dangerous, but what police knew, when they knew it, and why he was still free to come back and kill her.