On the evening of Wednesday, March 5, 2025, a verbal argument in the 1000 block of Sunnyside Avenue in Hopewell, Virginia, ended when 30-year-old Tion Kiandre Studivant was shot several times. The Hopewell Police Department received the report about 5:37 P.M.; officers found Studivant gravely injured and he was taken to Tri-Cities Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Hopewell Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Unit opened an immediate homicide investigation. A suspect was later taken into custody in connection with the shooting, though officials have not released that person’s name or the specific charges. The department is asking anyone with information about the dispute or the events that led to the shooting to come forward.

Did anyone in the Sunnyside Avenue area on March 5 see or hear anything that could help investigators?