Third victim in Southport mass shooting identified | Remembered for wit and kindness

SOUTHPORT, N.C. — The third victim of the Southport mass shooting has been identified as 36-year-old Solomon Adeoye Banjo.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

Banjo was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sept. 21, 1989. According to his obituary, from the start, he was a child of many cultures, inheriting tribal affiliations from the Chaga of Tanzania and the Yoruba of Nigeria. He moved to Zimbabwe in 1996 and the United States in 2003. Upon arriving in any new place, he set about befriending almost everyone he came across…

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