Post by Scumhunter on Aug 25, 2017 14:27:37 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: sandiegouniontribune.com)
From the San Diego Union-Tribune website:
Brandon Keiser was a passionate surfer with a well-used library card, an educated man willing to walk away from good pay for a more fulfilling job and more time in the water, his closest friends say.
Friday marked one month since someone fatally shot the 35-year-old North County native in front of his Oceanside condo. Police continue to investigate and have asked tipsters to come forward. Keiser’s friends continue to grieve, still shocked.
“It doesn’t make any sense as to how someone could shoot him,” said Dylan de Bie, who became friends with Keiser when they were high school freshmen in the early 1990s. “He was an amazing human being, and it is a complete and total travesty that he was taken in such an incomprehensible way.”
On March 22, shortly after 10 p.m., Oceanside police responded to a report of gunfire on South Freeman Street south of Missouri Avenue. They found Keiser dead on the sidewalk. Detectives don’t think the shooting was random, and neighbors told investigators that they’d heard arguing before the gunfire.
Keiser’s friends say he was responsible, respectful and non-confrontational.
“If there was anybody that was good at conflict resolution, it was Brandon,” longtime friend Gerard Ellison said. “He was highly intelligent. Whatever monster did this to him clearly has zero conscience, and I hope there is justice brought to that person.”
Keiser grew up in the San Pasqual Valley near Escondido and graduated from San Pasqual High School in 1999. When it came time to choose a college location, he selected Cal Poly San Luis Obispo so he could surf while he earned his business degree.
He eventually landed a job selling insurance, making good money but lacking fulfillment. A few years back, he’d had enough. Keiser took as job as a driving instructor, making less but enjoying himself more. He loved teaching — and there was more time for surfing.
“He walked away from money,” de Bie said, adding that Keiser “found his calling in teaching” and spoke of perhaps becoming a high school teacher.
Keiser was also a reader, “one of the few people I know who had an active library card and used it,” de Bie said.
Ellison agreed and said Keiser’s home library was eclectic, “everything from hiking to zen philosophy to gardening to organic cooking.”
“I have one of his day-trader investing books,” Ellison said. “It’s filled with notes and underlined and the pages are dog-eared.”
Kay Larmer, a longtime friend of Keiser’s parents, said they are devastated at the loss of their only child. Larmer said the couple appreciates the efforts “to find Brandon’s killer and bring him to justice.”
Police are hoping that someone will come forward with information to help them identify the killer.
“If you have any information about what happened, that will help us,” Oceanside police spokesman Ryan Keim said.
Oceanside has had 32 homicides since the start of 2012. Police detectives have made an arrest in 30 cases — a 94 percent solve rate. All 30 cases ended with a conviction, Keim said.
San Diego Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anonymous tips can be left at (888) 580-8477, anonymous emails and texts can be sent via sdcrimestoppers.org.
Ellison called Keiser “an absolute prince,” a man who “lived every day to the fullest. He left it all on the table.”
“Everything he had, he worked hard for, he earned it,” Ellison said. “His work ethic, his personal drive. I’ve never met anybody as driven as Brandon was to live life.”
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-oceanside-police-investigation-brandon-keiser-2016apr22-story.html
www.sdcrimestoppers.org/blog/one-year-anniversary-of-the-murder-of-brandon-keiser
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