On the night of January 20, 2023, a single-car crash on May Branch Road in Saluda County, South Carolina, left 26-year-old Alex Kewan Donaldson of Orangeburg dead. First responders found a 2007 Nissan Altima overturned in a ditch after it had struck a mailbox, but an autopsy changed the case’s course. The Saluda County Coroner determined Donaldson died from a gunshot wound rather than injuries from the wreck, and the incident was reclassified as a homicide.

Investigators learned that minutes before the 911 call about the crash there had been a separate call reporting shots fired in the same area. Two men, Bernard Gilliam Jr. and Tridarin Weaver, were later identified as suspects and had warrants issued charging them with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Both were located and taken into custody by the end of February 2023 after a multiagency manhunt.

If anyone has information about Donaldson’s movements that night or witnessed activity on May Branch Road around the time of the shooting, please share what is known.