On the night of Feb. 19, 2023, Brandon Golden and Daisha “Twink” Fitts walked out of the Fraternal Order of Eagles casino on Bluffton Road at 11:23 p.m., got into Golden’s van and left happy, pulling out on to Winchester Road Six minutes later, Golden was frantically speeding back into the casino parking lot, his friend Daisha, a beloved local barber, dying between the passenger and the back seat after she was shot in an ambush at Winchester and Airport Expressway.

The state says Haywood, 32, and Devonte Travier, almost 31, acted in concert that night and ambushed Golden’s minivan at the intersection of Winchester Road and the Airport Expressway, killing Daisha “Twink” Fitts in error and missing their target, Golden, altogether.