On a Sunday in June 2017 Brunswick police carried out a welfare check at a Wolfe Street home after 24-year-old Christopher Holliman and his grandparents, 64-year-old Carson Holliman and 63-year-old Vondell Holliman, did not attend morning church service. Officers found all three had been shot to death in the residence. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted the inquiry, and the community responded with prayer services and a substantial reward for information.

Investigators later arrested 22-year-old Roger Owens in October 2017 and charged him with three counts of malice murder plus home invasion, burglary, felony murder and a violation of the street gang terrorism and prevention act. The indictment suggested the killings may have been a case of mistaken identity — an intended burglary at a rival gang member’s house two doors down.

In June 2021 the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office dropped all charges against Owens after a key witness recanted and a knife previously attributed to Owens was determined to belong to a victim. The three Hollimans’ deaths remain unsolved. Does anyone have information that could help bring answers to the family?