CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A former Duke University football player has allegedly confessed to killing his former high school friend and Charlotte, North Carolina, real estate agent Whitney Hurd, according to a police affidavit.
Police found Hurd, 32, dead with multiple stab wounds in her townhome in Charlotte’s upscale South Park neighborhood on July 14 of last year while responding to a call for medical assistance that afternoon. Her manner of death was ruled a homicide.
On March 3 of this year, Brandon Braxton, 33, allegedly submitted a written grievance to Mecklenburg County jail officials, stating: “I killed Whitney Hurd,” the affidavit states.
When authorities discovered Hurd last July, they noticed that her vehicle and phone were missing.
Whitney Hurd, 32, was found murdered in her Charlotte townhome on July 14, 2024. (Instagram)
Hurd’s neighbor apparently saw a man driving her white BMW away from her home on the afternoon of July 4, 2024, and there was nobody in the passenger seat. The neighbor advised police that Hurd never let anyone else drive her vehicle.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) obtained a search warrant for Hurd’s phone and received her last known location data, which led detectives to her vehicle, which was collected and processed as evidence. Detectives were unable to locate her phone, but the case was still inside the vehicle.
