Willie James Simmons Jr., 33, was killed at his Aiken, South Carolina home on the night of October 6, 2019. Deputies from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office found him just inside the front door of the house in the 3100 block of Silver Bluff Road, bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest. Emergency personnel rendered aid but he died at the scene.

Witnesses told investigators they saw someone standing by a car at the edge of the road firing a rifle toward the house; bullets tore through the side of the home and at least one struck Simmons. The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office investigated the homicide but publicly named no suspects and announced no arrests. By early 2020 the case had gone cold and remained open.

Did anyone in the area on October 6, 2019, see a vehicle or person near Silver Bluff Road who might help investigators?