Brandon Lee Taylor, 28, was shot to death inside a residence on the 2700 block of 9th Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia, on January 24, 2017. Another man at the house, 24-year-old Royaire Elterro Deray Churchill, was also shot and wounded but survived.

Churchill told investigators he had been visiting Taylor and that a third man, 24-year-old Kelly Lee Shanks Powell Jr., arrived on January 23 and spent the day with them. Churchill said Powell retrieved a firearm in the early hours of January 24, shot Churchill (one bullet to the arm and a graze to the head) and then shot Taylor twice in the chest and head. Powell reportedly left with a bag of belongings after the shooting. Churchill later identified Powell from two mugshot lineups while recovering in hospital.

U.S. Marshals arrested Powell in Battle Creek, Michigan, on July 7, 2017, and he was returned to West Virginia to face charges. An initial indictment accused Powell of first-degree murder and malicious wounding; prosecutors later accepted a guilty plea to second-degree murder, and Powell received a 40-year prison sentence.

Does anyone have additional information about Taylor’s life in Huntington or who might have been with him on January 23–24?