Tamir Harris, 33, was fatally shot in broad daylight on August 22, 2017, in the North Highland neighborhood of Columbus, Georgia. He was standing in the 3600 block of Fourth Avenue, talking with the mother of some of his children and with his two-year-old son nearby, when a man approached from behind and fired a single shot into the back of Harris’s head; the bullet exited through the front of his head.
Police quickly identified 35-year-old Brandon Senior, known as Chip, and arrested him at a nearby apartment complex. Investigators recovered a .40-caliber handgun hidden in a laundry basket and found Harris’s blood on Senior’s black tennis shoes. Senior was charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
At trial, surveillance video placed Harris in the area shortly before the shooting. The defense argued about the neighborhood’s drug culture and suggested Harris participated in it. After two days of jury selection, jurors deliberated about 30 minutes before finding Senior guilty on all counts; the judge imposed life without parole. If anyone knew Tamir Harris, his movements that day, or saw something in the 3600 block of Fourth Avenue on August 22, 2017, please share what is known.