Jonathan Murriel Black, 29, of Piedmont, South Carolina, was shot and killed on the evening of Thursday, September 17, 2015, following an altercation at the Upstate Bar & Grill on Anderson Road. The fight began while Jonathan, known to family as J.B., was at the bar; the specifics of the dispute are not clear from reports, but it escalated into a physical confrontation.

Anderson County Sheriff’s Office investigators say the owner of the bar, Ronald Bert Blanding, produced a firearm during the fight and shot Jonathan in the chest. Emergency services responded, but the wound proved fatal. Blanding was identified as the suspect, taken into custody, and charged with murder; further details about motive and the exact sequence of events were not widely publicized. Jonathan was remembered in his obituary as a Jack of All Trades and a beloved son, brother, and grandson.