Two separate deaths in Richmond share the name Walter M. Robinson III and both remain unresolved. The first occurred on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, when 23-year-old Walter M. Robinson III was found with a gunshot wound at Phaup and North 21st streets. He was taken to VCU Medical Center and died on Saturday, January 31, 2015; that case was recorded as the city’s first homicide of the year and remains unsolved.

The second death was discovered on the morning of Saturday, May 20, 2023, when the body of 36-year-old Walter M. Robinson III was found in a residential trash bin in the 4500 block of Hanover Avenue in the Near West End. He was pronounced dead at the scene; initial reports noted no obvious signs of trauma and the Office of the Medical Examiner was to determine cause and manner. No suspects or arrests have been announced in connection with either death.

Did anyone in Richmond’s East End or Near West End know either Walter Robinson or have information that could help investigators?