(Columbia, SC) - A former Columbia city councilor is dead at age 40.
Brian DeQuincey Newman was elected to represent District Two in 2010 and did not seek re-election when his term ended in 2015.
Newman was the great-nephew of South Carolina Civil Rights leader Reverend I DeQuincey Newman and the son of circuit court judge Clifton Newman.
Newman's cause of death has yet to be determined.