Franklin Dewayne Borders Jr., a 41-year-old Black man, died on November 3, 2014 in a killing that West Virginia court records describe as a murder.

An Oak Hill-area resident, Robert I. Brown Jr., later conducted what he called a layman’s investigation and came to believe that Jamaal Calhoun was involved in Borders’s murder. Ten days after Borders’s death, Brown shot and killed Calhoun; Brown claimed self-defense, prosecutors disputed parts of his account, and Brown pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in that separate killing. Statements obtained years later for Brown’s post-conviction litigation included claims by witnesses that Calhoun had threatened Brown and that Calhoun could be violent, but those statements were submitted long after the events and were not judicial findings that Calhoun killed Borders.

Did anyone in the Oak Hill area have information about Borders’s activities or associates in early November 2014?