On the afternoon of August 8, 2025, 37-year-old Mario Swann was shot on a second-floor landing of an apartment building in the 1100 block of St. Paul Street in Richmond, Virginia. Officers arrived around 2:25 p.m.; Swann was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound, taken to a hospital, and later died of his injury. The medical examiner later determined the official cause and manner of death.

Family members say the shooting grew out of a domestic dispute. According to Antoinette Swann, the confrontation involved her brother, 34-year-old Jerome Lucas, and began over sodas in the refrigerator; she says a shot ricocheted off a wall and struck her husband while the couple’s children were present. A multi-agency search ended the same evening at about 6:50 p.m. when Lucas was located in the Gilpin Court neighborhood and taken into custody without incident.

Lucas was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and shooting into an occupied dwelling; authorities said additional charges were pending. The family is left to grieve and care for the children who witnessed the shooting. Did anyone in the Richmond area see or hear anything on the afternoon of August 8 that could help clarify what happened?