Man who fired shots on Columbia Street sentenced to federal prison for firearm charge

Brandon Chanell Joyner is accused of shooting at Columbia Police officers and the public on Greystone Blvd., and Stoneridge Drive. (Photo: Columbia Police Department)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– SCDOJ says a Columbia man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm during a 2023 shooting on Greystone Boulevard in Columbia.

Evidence found during the investigation revealed that on July 18, 2023, law enforcement responded to the corner of Greystone Boulevard and Stoneridge Drive regarding witnesses seeing a man shooting a gun into the air.

Brandon Chanell Joyner is accused of seeing a police car nearby and firing three shots, which investigators say hit the vehicle.

Additional units responded and pursued Joyner.

He is also accused of then turning and firing several shots at a group of police cars.

Investigators say Joyner retreated to his hotel room where he reloaded his firearm and began shooting again.

Law enforcement returned fire and hit the defendant in the back before he went back to his hotel room, changed clothes, and then left the room.

He made contact with police and told them he was an innocent bystander.

Officers determined he was the shooter and placed him under arrest.

SCDOJ says law enforcement recovered a 9mm pistol from the parking lot of the hotel where Joyner was staying.

Joyner’s DNA was found on the gun, and testing showed the casings recovered at the scene matched casings from the firearm recovered from the hotel.

A United States District judge sentenced Joyner to 180 months imprisonment which is to be followed by a three-year term of court-ordered supervision.

Joyner was sentenced to 25 years in state prison after pleading guilty to 10 counts of attempted murder.