On April 30, 2017, 52-year-old Bryan Keith Johnson was shot and killed inside an apartment in the 1000 block of First Avenue on Charleston’s West Side. Several other adults were present in the complex at the time of the shooting.

Charleston police investigated and identified 27-year-old John Stanley Ford III of Charleston as a suspect. Ford was arrested within days and charged with first-degree murder; he was being held without bond at the South Central Regional Jail.

The arrest followed quickly, but the fatal shooting left the neighborhood reeling and the case still poised to move through the courts. If anyone knew Bryan Johnson, his routines, or saw activity at the apartment complex around April 30, 2017, please come forward with information.