Family Asks for Help To Find Son’s Killer

Gary Buchanan stood silently while his wife, Mary, and his daughters, Kelly and Katie, gave their tearful pleas for the public’s help in finding at whose hands their son and brother, Sean Michael, had lost his life Memorial Day weekend at the Regency Square shopping center in Brandon.

“You can tell by everybody’s speech how emotional this still is for all us,” Gary Buchanan said, joined, too, with his son and the children’s aunt, at a June 3 press conference at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on Falkenburg Drive.

“It’s a tragic loss not only for our family but to everyone that knew him,” Gary Buchanan said. "He had no enemies. This is completely random, as far as we know.”

Indeed, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Larry McKinnon, in an interview the day before, called it “a classic whodunit,” the homicidal death of the 26-year-old father, who “lived an honest, good and clean life.”

To read more about this press conference, and to view videos of the family’s comments, visit the Brandon Patch article, “Family Pleas for Leads To Solve Regency Square Homicide."

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