Ryane O’Neil Swims Jr., 27, was killed in downtown Savannah, Georgia, in the early morning hours of October 22, 2023, after a night out ended in gunfire at Whitaker Street and Congress Street. Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. on reports of shots fired and found one man dead from an apparent gunshot wound; the Chatham County coroner later identified him. Reports describe him as a former soldier who had been stationed at Fort Stewart. Another man was wounded in the same shooting and taken to Memorial Health with non-life-threatening injuries.

Within days the investigation produced an arrest: police charged 19-year-old Larry Pounds III with murder in connection with the shooting. The sudden violence in a crowded downtown corridor left a family mourning a son who had moved from Michigan to military service and then was killed on a Savannah street.

Did anyone who was in downtown Savannah that night see or hear anything that could help clarify what happened at Whitaker and Congress?