Rahmel Maurice Lundy, 33, was fatally shot after an encounter inside an apartment in the 500 block of Seventh Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia. The shooting was reported shortly before 7:30 p.m. on March 20, 2025; Lundy was taken to a local hospital in serious condition and police announced the next day that he had died, making it Huntington’s first homicide of 2025. Lundy’s funeral-home obituary records his date of death as March 21, 2025, while many reports refer to the March 20 shooting date.

Investigators initially released few details about what happened inside the apartment. On March 24, investigators arrested 23-year-old Amar Abdu Richardson in Huntington and charged him with first-degree murder. At a preliminary hearing on April 23, 2025, a detective testified that Richardson admitted shooting Lundy and said Lundy had been robbing people and had threatened him; other occupants of the apartment did not corroborate the robbery claim. Prosecutors disputed the self-defense argument and presented evidence they said showed Lundy was inside the apartment for only about five seconds and that a gun was discarded in a dumpster shortly after the shooting. A magistrate found probable cause and sent the case to a grand jury; no later resolution is reported through August 2026.