Brian E. West-Banister, a 35-year-old male, was killed on the night of Saturday, January 26, 2013, in Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania. Online obituary information identifies him as Brian E. West-Banister, a Chester High School class of 1996 graduate and the owner of B. Super Cleanout Service, LLC. News reports identified him as Brian West and described him as the father of a young daughter.
The shooting happened shortly before 10 p.m.
on the 2600 block of Williams Street, outside the home he was renting from his brother, who was reportedly away on active duty in Iraq. Police said West-Banister was outside his vehicle and about to go into the residence when someone confronted him. He was then shot and killed in front of the home. A police spokesman specifically pushed back on early descriptions that called it a drive-by shooting, saying instead that he had been accosted before being shot.
Neighbors described hearing the gunfire, and the case was immediately treated as a homicide investigation by Upper Chichester police. Reports said police were searching for the gunman after the shooting, but the publicly available online reporting located for the case did not identify a suspect by name. The available accounts also did not describe a motive, a recovered weapon, or a confirmed relationship between West-Banister and the person who shot him.
At the time of the initial reporting, no arrests had been made. I found no online source reporting that anyone was later arrested, charged, tried, convicted, or sentenced in connection with West-Banister’s killing. Based on the available online information, the case appears to have remained publicly unresolved, with no documented conviction or punishment tied to his death.
