A 34-year-old Columbia man has agreed to plead guilty to committing a hate crime after firing a gun at his neighbor in July 2025.
Jonathan Felkel drove into a gated Richland County community where he and Jarvis McKenzie lived. Felkel fired a gun toward McKenzie and shouted, “You better keep running, boy!” McKenzie is Black.
Felkel agreed to plead guilty to violating McKenzie’s housing rights. The federal charge stemmed from a law that criminalizes the use of force or threatened force to injure, intimidate or interfere with a person’s housing rights based on race. Felkel was taken into custody a week after the shooting and indicted by a federal grand jury in Dec. 2025.
He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine up to $250,000 and a term of supervised release to follow any term of imprisonment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina.
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