Brandon Jamal Blanding, 28, was fatally shot on South Beltline Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina, on the evening of September 2, 2018. The shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m.; Richland County EMS transported him to Palmetto Health Richland, where he died of gunshot wounds, according to the Richland County Coroner’s Office.

Blanding, a Gaston resident, was remembered by family as a father with an amazing sense of humor and a big heart. Funeral services were held at the Holy Nation Church and he was buried in Lincoln Cemetery. The Columbia Police Department opened an investigation, but in the months after the killing authorities were still working to determine the circumstances and no arrests or public suspect identifications had been announced.

Did anyone in the Columbia area see or hear anything on South Beltline Boulevard that night, or have information about who was involved?