On the night of August 15, 2019, 55-year-old Brantley Sutton was found shot on Beaumont Street near E.B. Sessions Park in Columbia, South Carolina. Police were alerted by ShotSpotter around 11:30 p.m. and discovered Sutton at the scene. An autopsy by the Richland County Coroner determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the torso and classified the death as a homicide.

Family and friends remember Sutton, known as Bug, as a man with a big and beautiful heart who loved his family and often helped others.

If anyone was in the Beaumont Street or E.B. Sessions Park area that night or has information that could help identify who shot Brantley Sutton, please come forward.