In late summer 2015 an apparent single-vehicle crash on Baxterville Road just outside Poplarville, Mississippi, proved to be a homicide. Responders found 31-year-old Brandon Skateboard Penry Jr. of Columbia in an SUV that had veered off the road; the vehicle’s doors were open and Penry had multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head. Investigators concluded Penry was shot while the SUV was still in motion.

Four other men from Columbia were identified as being in the vehicle that night: Chadrick Devon Daniel, Gerrod Oneal Howard, Kenneth Johnson Jr. and Gary Jamal Daughtry. Daniel and Howard surrendered to the sheriff’s department; Johnson and Daughtry were taken into custody in Marion County. Daniel, Johnson and Daughtry were initially charged with tampering with physical evidence and being accessories after the fact, while Howard was charged with murder as the suspected shooter.

Over the following years Chadrick Devon Daniel and Kenneth Johnson Jr. were found guilty. Gary Jamal Daughtry was located in Pennsylvania in August 2018 and, after extradition, had his charges upgraded to murder. Did anyone who knew Brandon or who was in that area in 2015 notice anything unusual about the group’s travel that night?