INDIAN LAND, S.C. — 20-year-old Randy Tran was taking engineering courses at York Tech after graduating from Nation Ford high school in Fort Mill.
On Wednesday his father, and other family members were too emotional to talk about his tragic death the night before.
Tran's body was found near a tree line on little river trail in Indian Land around 7 p.m. Tuesday night.
It's an isolated, pot-holed gravel road that runs off little river road. There are few houses nearby, but someone spotted a man dumping the body just before dark. Tran had been shot once in the head.
Sheriff's deputies said a neighbor called 911 after seeing a man pull a body from the trunk of an orange car. The man had bloody clothes, and bloody hands.
Deputies identified the suspect as 21-year-old David Kucinski, also of Fort Mill.
They said he left the body, and drove off in the car, which belonged to Tran.
The car is an orange 2015 Toyota Scion, with South Carolina tag: LSA 246.
Neighbors like Terry Eudy saw all the patrol cars on the road, but had no idea why they were there.
"I saw eight to 10 cars and I figured there's something bad that happened here," Eudy said.
Melissa Phillips lives about a hundred yards away, and said she saw the police too, but heard nothing unusual last night.
"They didn't let me know anything. I'm concerned for my safety, and the safety of my family," she said.
One question deputies have now, is where the murder happened. Deputies wouldn't say if there was any evidence that Tran was shot on little river trail.
"We're hoping that pieces fall together and we can learn whether this incident actually happened here, or somewhere else," said Sheriff's spokesman Doug Barfield.
Barfield said several people with information about the killing were being interviewed late wednesday. However, right now deputies have no motive for the murder, and need information on the connection between tran and kucinski.
There is a nationwide alert for the Toyota Scion, and for Kucinski.
Barfield described the search as very broad.
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