JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – MAD DADS and the family of a Jacksonville man who was fatally shot outside his home during Hurricane Helene are asking for the community to speak up.
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Brandon Holcomb was shot multiple times on Sept. 26 in the Mixon Town neighborhood.
Ericka Kohn, his mother, showed the bullet holes in the house where he was renting before he was killed.
“It could’ve been anybody, but by it being my child, I am very upset it took that many shots and those big guns to gun down my child like that,” Kohn said.
Holcomb would have turned 39 years old on Friday.
“I am not making it through,” Kohn said. “I am not, I cry every day. I am upset every day. His birthday was yesterday and we had to go visit a cemetery. It is hard.”
It’s also hard on his 5-year-old daughter Brielle who he left behind.
“He loved me. My dad loved me,” Brielle said.
Family, friends and the crime-fighting organization MAD DADS knocked on doors along Eaverson Street off Myrtle Avenue to inform people about Holcomb and to see if anyone has information about his murder.
MAD DADS outreach coordinator AJ Jordan said it’s important for people to speak up.
“This could be any of our families,” Jordan said. “No matter where you live. It is important for us to let the families know, let the community know that we are out here because we care. I know that Brandon was a hard-working man. He worked out at the port. He loved everybody. He was a father. He was his mother’s heart.”
His mother talked about the kind of person he was.
“Brandon was a great, loving person,” Kohn said. “He did not get into anything. The only thing he did was just work, go home, work, go home.”
There’s a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.
Kohn said she wouldn’t stop looking for answers and had a message for whoever was responsible for her son’s death.
“Turn yourself in,” Kohn said. “Family will be able to come see you behind bars. I can never see my child. I cannot touch him. I cannot do anything. The only thing I can see is dirt and headstone. Turn yourself in.”