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Brandon Swinney was 42 when he was shot and killed outside his Odessa, Texas, home on November 21, 2019. He had returned from baseball practice with his young son and, as he stepped out of his truck, an assailant who had been waiting in the shadows shot him; the moment was recorded on nearby surveillance footage. Swinney was known in his community as a loving husband and father and an enthusiastic athlete who played rodeo, baseball and football.

He graduated from Odessa High School in 1995 and later played baseball at Odessa College, Hardin-Simmons University and the University of South Carolina Aiken. The killing went cold for years, leaving his wife Samantha and their children Kai and Sage grieving. In May 2024 investigators identified Roman Aguilar Alvarado, then incarcerated in a federal facility, as the prime suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest.

Has anyone in the Odessa area heard additional details about that night or seen the surveillance footage?