Brandon Khalil Sandy, an 18-year-old African American male, was found dead inside a car on Edwin Drive in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 11, 2016. Police responding to a welfare check around 1:45 p.m. discovered Sandy with a gunshot wound to the head; a 911 caller said the car had been parked behind an apartment building since the previous night and that blood was all over the vehicle’s interior.

The investigation resulted in multiple arrests. Aljariek Josiah Freeman, 18, was located in Atlanta and taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on December 17, 2016, and was being held at the Wake County Detention Center on murder charges. In October 2017, two more people were charged: Basadar Lawya St. Phard, 18, with first-degree murder, and Lijena Victoria Hickman, 19, with accessory after the fact to murder; both were arrested in Raleigh.

The Raleigh Police Department continues to seek information from the public about the circumstances that led to Sandy’s death. Does anyone with knowledge of this case or who knew Brandon have information to share with investigators?