Driver found dead in car: Police discover victim while responding to call about motor vehicle accident

A 33-year-old man was shot and killed on America Street early Monday.

Brian Eliot Holmes of North Charleston died of a single gunshot wound, Charleston County Chief Deputy Coroner Bobbi Jo O'Neal said.

Charleston police were dispatched to America Street at 2:58 a.m. for a report of a motor vehicle accident, according to an incident report.

When officers arrived, they found a bloody and unresponsive man in the driver's seat of a 2011 Hyundai Sonata.

The coroner's office said Holmes died at the scene.

According to published reports, the car Holmes was driving crashed into a car that was parked on America Street between Amherst and Reid. Police closed that portion of America Street for several hours.

According to his Facebook page, Holmes was an accountant and financial manager who graduated from The Citadel in 2000.

He grew up in Greenville and graduated from Riverside High School in 1996, according to his Facebook profile.

The coroner's office said Holmes lived in North Charleston. A police report lists an address in Cayce.

Charleston police were tight-lipped about the investigation. Asked if there were any theories about what Holmes was doing on America Street at 3 a.m., police spokesman Charles Francis would say only that the investigation was ongoing. No arrests were announced.

The slaying is the seventh homicide so far this year in the city, Francis said. Arrests have been made in four of those cases.