Brian Warford was 17 when he was shot dead on August 30, 1982, on the campus of Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. He was African American. The killing was one of a series of racially motivated shootings carried out that year by Frank Spisak, who targeted Black people and others he said he hated.

Spisak shot Warford in the head during one of the attacks. Earlier in the same spree he had also killed Reverend Horace Rickerson, 57, and Timothy Sheehan, 50, a Cleveland State employee. Spisak told authorities his motives included hatred of blacks, Jews, and gays and referred to mental confusion over his sexual identity.

Those who knew Brian and anyone with information about his death are asked to come forward.