Lee Allen Navarro was 22 when he was fatally shot while working alone at Zero’s Sub Shop in the Birchwood Shopping Center on Virginia Beach Boulevard on a Sunday evening in November 1991. Potential customers found him gravely wounded at about 7:45 p.m.; he was rushed to Virginia Beach General Hospital but died of a gunshot wound. The State Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the manner of death a homicide after autopsy.

The Virginia Beach Police Department lists the case as an active cold case. In the years since the shooting no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests announced; the motive and any investigative leads have not been released. Lee Navarro’s death remains an unanswered tragedy.

If anyone was in or near the Birchwood Shopping Center that night or has information about Lee’s last shift, please come forward.