Crime & Public Safety

45-year-old man shot and killed Monday at his home in Bluffton, police say

A 45-year-old man was found shot to death at his home in Westbury Park in Bluffton Monday night.

Officers responded to a report of shots fired after 11:15 p.m. and found Timothy Milliken in his home on Kensington Boulevard in the gated community, according to a news release from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.

No suspects were located, but the crime scene unit collected evidence from the scene. Police were still on scene as of 9 a.m.

The shooting is being investigated as a homicide, according to Maj. Bob Bromage, spokesperson for the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.

Security cameras cover the entrance of the home as a deputy with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office walks under the police tape on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 at a homicide investigation in the gated-community of Westbury Park in Bluffton. Police responded to the home on Monday night after receiving a call of shots fired and found 45-year-old Timothy Milliken dead. As police were working inside the home, a deputy turned away a garbage man from emptying the receptacle, foreground, outside of Milliken’s home.
Security cameras cover the entrance of the home as a deputy with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office walks under the police tape on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 at a homicide investigation in the gated-community of Westbury Park in Bluffton. Police responded to the home on Monday night after receiving a call of shots fired and found 45-year-old Timothy Milliken dead. As police were working inside the home, a deputy turned away a garbage man from emptying the receptacle, foreground, outside of Milliken’s home. Drew Martin dmartin@islandpacket.com

A forensic autopsy will be conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston on Friday, the release said.

Milliken was arrested in summer 2019 for pulling a gun on his Westbury Park neighbor because of loud music, according to previous reporting by The Island Packet. Those charges are still pending.

Anyone who has information on the shooting death of Milliken should contact Cpl. William Weich at 843-255-3313 or Crimestoppers of the Lowcountry at 843-554-1111.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

This story originally published Nov. 17, 2020

This story was originally published November 17, 2020 at 8:42 AM.

Katherine Kokal
The Island Packet
Katherine Kokal graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and joined The Island Packet newsroom in 2018. Before moving to the Lowcountry, she worked as an interviewer and translator at a nonprofit in Barcelona and at two NPR member stations. At The Island Packet, Katherine covers Hilton Head Island’s government, environment, development, beaches and the all-important Loggerhead Sea Turtle. She has earned South Carolina Press Association Awards for in-depth reporting, government beat reporting, business beat reporting, growth and development reporting, food writing and for her use of social media.
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