Eric Mario Carballo was 32 when he was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Sunday, June 8, 2008. At about 2:40 a.m. in the Aragona section of Virginia Beach, he was exiting a vehicle in the 500 block of Southgate Avenue when a single gunshot struck him. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene and the State Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the cause of death as a gunshot wound and ruled the manner of death homicide.

Virginia Beach Police investigated the shooting but the case went cold. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests were ever announced. The circumstances reported at the time—including any possible motive and who else may have been in the vehicle with Carballo—were not released. The case remains an open, unsolved homicide.

If anyone saw activity in the 500 block of Southgate Avenue around 2:40 a.m. on June 8, 2008, or has information about this shooting, please contact the Virginia Beach Police Department.