MAD DADDS, loved ones of Jacksonville man who died during Hurricane Helene search the neighborhood for answers

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – MAD DADS and the family of a Jacksonville man who was fatally shot outside his home during Hurricane Helene are asking the community to speak out.

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Brandon Holcomb was shot multiple times in the Mixon Town neighborhood on Sept. 26.

His mother, Ericka Kohn, showed bullet holes in the house she rented before she was killed.

“It could have been anyone, but since it was my child, it made me very sad that so many shots were fired and those big guns hit my child like that,” Kohn said.

Holcomb would have turned 39 on Friday.

“I can’t do this,” Kohn said. “It’s not me, I cry every day. I feel sad every day. Yesterday was his birthday and we had to go to the cemetery. Difficult.”

There are also difficult times for the 5-year-old daughter Brielle he left behind.

“He loved me. My father loved me,” Brielle said.

His family, friends and the crime-fighting organization MAD DADS knocked on doors along Eaverson Street at Myrtle Street to inform people about Holcomb and see if anyone had information about his murder.

MAD DADS outreach coordinator AJ Jordan said it’s important for people to speak out.

“This could be any of our families,” Jordan said. “It doesn’t matter where you live. It is important for us that they know that we are here because we care about families and society. I know Brandon is a hardworking man. He worked at the port. He loved everyone. He was a father. “It was his mother’s heart.”

His mother talked about the kind of person he was.

“Brandon was a wonderful, loving person,” Kohn said. “He wasn’t involved in anything. All he did was just work, go home, work, go home.

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Kohn said he will not stop searching for answers and will deliver a message to the person responsible for his son’s death.

“Surrender,” Kohn said. “Your family will be able to come to see you behind bars. I can never see my child. I can’t touch him. I can’t do anything. All I can see is dirt and gravestones. Surrender.”