A midday outing to a Woodbridge car wash ended in violence and death on September 14, 2024. Fifty-four-year-old Earl Duwan Miller, a Black resident of Woodbridge, was involved in a verbal dispute at the Sonic Soft Car Wash on Richmond Highway that briefly calmed before erupting into a physical fight. During the struggle a 25-year-old man, identified as Jermaine Antwoine Lewis of Springfield, allegedly produced a firearm and shot Miller in the upper body. A 29-year-old woman with Lewis, identified as Vinisha Lanisa Neville of Woodbridge, is reported to have brandished a gun as well. An exterior wall was struck by gunfire but no one else was injured.

Miller was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. Lewis and Neville fled in a vehicle but were captured shortly afterward on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County by Virginia State Police. Lewis was charged with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and shooting from an occupied vehicle; Neville was charged with brandishing a firearm and both were arrested following the investigation. Does anyone have information about Miller or the moments leading up to the confrontation at the car wash?