On the evening of November 1, 2013, 40-year-old Bradford Phillip Todd was fatally shot while hunting in Sumter National Forest in Abbeville County. Todd, who had ties to Greenwood, South Carolina, was hunting feral hogs on the ground when a single .300-caliber Winchester Magnum round struck him in the back between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. The shot came from a 60-year-old hunter from Pickens County who was in an elevated deer stand and fired after believing he saw movement in the low light. The two men were not acquainted.

The shooter called 911 immediately, and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Abbeville County Coroner’s Office investigated. Authorities noted Todd did not have the legally required orange vest on at the time, though an orange hat was found in his possession. Officials treated the death as a hunting accident and described it as a case of mistaken identity in the woods.

Did anyone in the area that evening see movement near the deer stand or know more about how the two hunters came to be in that location?