On April 19, 2019, 18-year-old Brian Harris Jr. was shot and killed while sitting in the back seat of a vehicle at a Chevron station at Gordon Highway and Olive Road in Augusta, Georgia. Two men pulled up, blocked the car’s exit, exited their vehicle, spoke to those inside and then opened fire from both sides. An autopsy found multiple gunshot wounds; seven bullets entered the left side of his body from the firearm discharged by Artavius Ward.

Witness testimony at trial said Harris briefly exited the car then returned before the shooting and that he had been carrying a gun and had gone to the station to conduct a drug deal. Two men identified as Keshun Carswell and Artavius Ward were arrested, indicted on malice murder, felony murder and pointing-a-gun charges, and held without bond. A jury convicted both men and a court sentenced each to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Harris’s family attended sentencing to describe the loss and its impact.

Does anyone have information about Brian Harris Jr., his movements that night, or witnesses who might not yet have spoken to prosecutors?