Daquan Jackie Lamark Mayo, a 14-year-old eighth grader, was shot and killed in Richmond, Virginia on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024. He was found lying in the road near 4th Avenue and Front Street just before 11:00 p.m., transported to a local hospital, and later died of his injuries.

Family remembered Daquan as a goofy, basketball-loving teenager who loved to laugh — his raspy laugh echoed his mother’s — and who was looking forward to starting high school with older cousins. The night he was killed he had been walking home with a group that included a cousin; according to the family, someone in that group produced a firearm and Daquan was shot.

The Richmond Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation and has not publicly named suspects or announced arrests. Anyone who may have information about the shooting is asked to contact investigators.