On the evening of Tuesday, April 8, 1997, a customer or employee at Military Highway Pawn in the 700 block of Military Highway called 911 about a man suffering from a gunshot injury. Officers and emergency medical personnel found 65-year-old Joseph Haught inside the Virginia Beach pawn shop; he was taken to the Trauma Center at Norfolk General Hospital on life support and died there the next day, April 9, 1997.

The Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide and the Virginia Beach Police Department launched an investigation. Despite continued efforts, the shooting remains an active, unsolved homicide and no arrests have been announced.

Does anyone who worked in or visited Military Highway Pawn around April 8, 1997, remember details that could help investigators?