Tijuan Lamar Phillips, 25, was fatally shot in Hopewell, Virginia, after being brought to Tri-Cities Hospital with a life-threatening gunshot wound just before 11:00 P.M. on March 8, 2025. He was then airlifted to Chippenham Hospital, where he died on March 13, 2025. Multiple spent cartridge casings were recovered at the scene near the intersection of Winston Churchill Drive and East Randolph Road.

Born in Hopewell on February 25, 2000, Phillips attended Hopewell City Public Schools, had a passion for music, and was a father to two daughters, Khaliya and Xuriela Phillips. His surviving family includes his mother, Tanesha Nicholas, his father, Tijuan Dillard, siblings, grandparents, and extended relatives.

The Hopewell Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit opened an inquiry that led to arrests on March 21, 2025: two 16-year-old males were charged in connection with the shooting, each facing First-Degree Murder, Shooting into an Occupied Vehicle, and Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony, with one youth also charged with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. Police also arrested 60-year-old Eston Roger Antis of Petersburg and charged him with Accessory to Murder after the Fact; he was held without bond at Riverside Regional Jail.

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