Tyrell Bess was 25 and from the Ladson–Summerville area. Public obituaries list his parents, Shawn Bess and Lucy Capers, and several children, including a son named after him. He died on August 14, 2015; deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office found his body in a wooded area near Lincolnville with spent shell casings nearby, and news reports described his death as a fatal shooting.

Detectives recovered physical evidence at the scene that, according to contemporaneous accounts, pointed them toward a man from Lincolnville. On September 30, 2015, 23-year-old Thomas S. McFadden Jr. was arrested by a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force and charged with Bess’s murder; he was booked into the Charleston County jail and was scheduled for a bond hearing.

Reports later say McFadden was acquitted of the 2015 killing of Bess, and no other person is shown charged or convicted in this death. Bess’s name is memorialized on national gun violence sites and in online obituaries that continue to receive messages from family and friends.

Did anyone in the community see Tyrell Bess on or around August 14, 2015, or have information about where he was taken that day?