ZaeQuan J. Person, 29, a Black man born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, was shot and killed on April 5, 2024, in Emporia, Virginia. Emporia police were called that Friday afternoon to the 600 block of Clay Street, where they found two people with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to hospitals; Person did not survive.

By the next day investigators had focused on the other injured person. Emporia police arrested 21-year-old Larry Banks of Emporia, described as stable after his injuries, and charged him in connection with Person’s death; authorities identified the case as a homicide investigation and filed a second-degree murder charge. In the days after the shooting, funeral and burial arrangements for Person were announced and family and friends gathered to mourn.

What can readers who knew ZaeQuan Person or who were in Emporia that day add about what happened on Clay Street?