Solomon Andrew Roane, 24, was fatally shot in Hampton, Virginia, on August 3, 2023. Roane, known as Solo and a 2017 graduate of L. C. Bird High School, ran Triple R Transportation and had been refurbishing cars since age eleven. He traveled to Bayhaven Drive that evening to sell a car he had repaired.

According to his brother, the meeting may have been a setup. Two people reportedly entered Roane’s vehicle and gunshots were fired just before midnight. Officers found Roane in the 100 block of Bayhaven Drive; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspects fled and have not been identified, and no arrests have been announced. The shooting was Hampton’s 23rd homicide of 2023.

Roane’s family remembers him as a giving, loving person devoted to his work. Anyone who was in the Bayhaven Drive area that night or who has information about the sale or the people who entered the vehicle is asked to come forward.