Brian Keith Jones was found on the evening of November 17, 2016, outside a Philadelphia apartment complex with a fatal contact gunshot wound to his left shoulder. A medical examiner testified the wound would have caused death within one to two minutes. Investigators connected the killing to the Breed Motorcycle Gang after testimony and surveillance tied member Charles L. Kulow, known as Ruthless, to the scene.

Witnesses said Kulow admitted to shooting Jones and was seen standing near the body after the shot. Witnesses and surveillance footage showed Kulow arriving with another man, later moving Jones’s body behind a trashcan, and dragging him down a set of stairs before leaving him outside. It was established Kulow had no license to carry a firearm in Philadelphia.

A jury convicted Kulow of third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and two Uniform Firearms Act violations; he was sentenced to an aggregate 17 to 34 years. The case still has unanswered questions about the unidentified man seen with Kulow — anyone with information about that person or Jones’s final hours is asked to come forward.