Byron Samuel Wright, 34, was shot and killed on Friday, August 11, 2017, on a residential street in Marion, South Carolina. Authorities classified his death as a homicide attributable to gun violence. Born February 18, 1983, he was the son of Betty and Jerome McRae, a Marion High School graduate (class of 2003), an artist, and the father of a son, Byron Wright Jr.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation after the shooting. If anyone in Marion remembers Byron or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.