DeBrandon Charles, 27, a Black male from Brenham, was shot on the morning of September 29, 2025, in the 2400 block of Jaguar Drive on Bryan’s west side. Officers responded around 6:10 a.m., found him wounded and performed lifesaving measures before he was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Early statements described the incident as isolated while detectives worked to piece together what happened in the pre-dawn hours.

By mid-October investigators had identified a single suspect: 20-year-old Cado Sakai Traylor of Brenham. On October 13 Bryan police obtained a warrant charging Traylor with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting that killed Charles. Traylor was already in the Washington County Jail on unrelated matters, having been booked there on October 3; court records show he pleaded guilty on October 9 to a separate aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Washington County and was listed on the jail roster with multiple aggravated-assault counts distinct from Charles’s killing. Charles’s family publicly questioned why the person accused in his death had been free on bond for an earlier violent offense prior to the shooting.

Does anyone in the Bryan or Brenham area have information about what happened on Jaguar Drive that morning?