Brandon Bacote-Byer, an 18-year-old Black man from Lower Pottsgrove, was killed late on October 17, 2022, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Police say the shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. near Fourth and Johnson Streets after multiple reports of gunfire; Brandon and 17-year-old Skyler Fox were found lying near Fox’s vehicle. An autopsy found both teens died from multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides.

Investigators describe the night beginning with a planned meeting between Fox and 17-year-old Dominic Carboni for a marijuana purchase. Authorities say Carboni picked up 23-year-old Deonte Kelly in a maroon pickup before driving to the meeting. Crime-scene evidence included many fired cartridge casings, a projectile, and a 9 mm handgun with an obliterated serial number; surveillance linked a maroon Ford pickup leaving the area to a Ford F-150 associated with Carboni’s family. Prosecutors later charged Carboni and Kelly with murder and robbery; both men pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, robbery, and related counts by June 2023.

Does anyone have information about the meeting that led to the shooting or saw a maroon Ford pickup in the neighborhood that night?