Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 09/19/1997
- Missing From:
- Missing From Richland County, South Carolina
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race Black
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 10/05/1967 (57)
- Age:
- Age 29 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’11, 225 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Jones has a scar on his left forearm.
- Details of Disappearance:
- In September 1997, Jones went to Richland County, South Carolina, from Greensboro, North Carolina, with his brother for a friend’s baby’s baptism. Driving his Lexus, they stayed at a Quality Inn. Jones disappeared soon after.
Three days later, his wrecked Lexus was found; a man had crashed it and run away. The car had so much blood in it that police believed someone had been killed inside.
Police reopened the case in 2009, using Jones’s son’s DNA to match the blood. Bryen Brice was arrested and confessed to killing Jones in 2010. Police think Jones, who had a history of drug use, was murdered during a drug deal gone wrong. Another man, Errol West, is still wanted in connection with the crime.
Jones’s body has never been found, but because of the blood in the car and Brice’s confession, investigators believe he was murdered.
- Agency:
- Richland County Sheriff’s Office 803-691-9000
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This person was missing Missing Since 09/19/1997