Brandon Peller, 24, a Norfolk resident, was pronounced dead at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center after arriving with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck on the morning of September 16, 2012. The man who brought him to the hospital said he’d found Peller at an unknown location and denied knowledge of the shooting. Investigators say Peller had been at a friend’s house earlier and may have left to do side work; his cell phone placed him in the Kempsville/Centerville area near the Virginia Beach–Chesapeake border.

According to police, one of Peller’s brothers and an acquaintance were en route to pick him up for the side job when an unknown vehicle flagged them down and said Peller had been shot. The two men placed Peller in a black Nissan and took him to the hospital; the acquaintance then drove away and that vehicle was later processed in Virginia Beach. Peller’s silver Mercedes was found on Saddlehorn Drive in Chesapeake. Detectives have released a photo of a man they want to question and are offering up to a $1,500 reward for information leading to an arrest. If anyone knew Brandon, was in the Kempsville–Centerville area that morning, or has information about the unknown vehicle or the man in the released photo, please come forward.