On the evening of April 9, 2024, 31-year-old Deqwane Brown was shot and killed inside a vehicle near the intersection of 12th Street and Rosser Avenue in the Venable neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia. Police arrived about 7:30 p.m.; Brown, known as Buck, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. This was Charlottesville’s first homicide of 2024.

Brown was a father of two daughters and was expecting a son. He had recently earned a commercial driver’s license from Piedmont Virginia Community College and hoped to start a trucking business to provide for his family. He had just dropped off his six-year-old daughter after sharing a meal with her before he was killed.

Authorities identified Sidney Montcellus Stinnie as connected to the homicide and obtained arrest warrants charging him with second-degree murder, use or display of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a violent felon. Stinnie was initially considered armed and at large and later turned himself in.

If anyone has information about Brown, his last movements that evening, or the events near 12th Street and Rosser Avenue, please share what you know.