Late on June 18, 2024, 24-year-old Tasean Delvecchio Farmer was shot inside an apartment at the Woodside Village complex on Piney Forest Road in Danville, Virginia. Officers who responded to a report of shots fired just before 11 p.m. found Farmer with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to SOVAH Health and later pronounced dead.

Police quickly identified 32-year-old Danville resident Richard Lee Wilson, Jr. as a suspect. Wilson fled the scene and was located hours later in neighboring North Carolina. Authorities say the shooting appears isolated and that there is no ongoing threat to the public. Wilson faces charges including second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, use of a firearm during a violent felony, reckless handling of a firearm, and discharging a firearm in an occupied dwelling.

Wilson had previously been indicted in a separate July 2022 deadly shooting at the same apartment complex; that earlier case was terminated in August 2023 after a key witness died before trial. The investigation into Farmer’s death remains ongoing. Did anyone in Danville know Tasean or have information about that night?