Michael Antonio Brice was 25 when he was shot and killed outside an apartment on the 7300 block of Patterson Road in Columbia, South Carolina, in the early morning hours of Friday, September 6, 2019. Columbia Police arrived just before 5 a.m. and found Brice suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body; he died at the scene.

Police say the shooting arose from an argument between acquaintances. The suspect was identified as 36-year-old James Hanton, who left the state after the killing. Hanton was located and arrested in Buffalo, New York, by U.S. Marshals and local police on September 10, 2019, and was being held in Erie County pending extradition to Columbia on charges of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

On the same day as Brice’s death, 21-year-old Dabreon Derrick, a relative of Brice, was arrested in a suspected retaliatory shooting after allegedly firing at an occupied car; the occupants were not believed to be directly connected to Brice’s murder.

If anyone has information about Michael Brice, his activities that night, or the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.