Branden Boyd, 22, of Bowman, South Carolina, was shot and killed on the evening of October 10, 2016, during a Craigslist meeting at the Wilco Hess travel plaza off Interstate 26 on Burke Road in Calhoun County. The county coroner said Boyd was shot in the head and pronounced dead in the travel plaza parking lot at 6:36 p.m. Witnesses described an argument in the lot that escalated into gunfire amid the busy scene of motorists and truckers.

Sheriff Thomas Summers reported that two brothers from Cayce, Chavasse Michael Smith, 19, and Hasani Dion Smith, 17, had contacted Boyd about the phone and met him at the truck stop. Authorities alleged the meeting was a pretense for an attempted robbery; Chavasse and Hasani Smith were charged with murder, attempted armed robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. A third man, 20-year-old Darion Washington, was charged with accessory after the fact to a felony.

Boyd’s death became a cautionary example of the risks of meeting strangers for online transactions. Does anyone have information about that October 10 meeting or the events in the Wilco Hess parking lot?