In the early morning hours of August 4, 2024, a shooting near the intersection of Virginia Center Parkway and Wylie Lane in Glen Allen, Virginia, left 33-year-old Deondre Jermaine Spinks of Richmond with a gunshot wound to the stomach. Henrico Police arrived after a call around 2:28 a.m.; Spinks was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries. The department is investigating the incident as a homicide.

Family described Spinks as a loving father to a two-year-old daughter and a Henrico County road maintenance employee who operated heavy machinery. The shooting happened in a residential area where Spinks did not live. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified; detectives are collecting evidence and asking residents with surveillance footage or information to contact Detective Herbst or submit material through an anonymous online portal.

Did anyone in the Glen Allen area see or hear anything that morning or have footage that could help investigators?