Nineteen-year-old T’miya Ornique Murphy was shot while driving her 2017 Kia Optima on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County on August 1, 2023, shortly before 11 a.m. According to reports, another vehicle pulled alongside hers and shots were fired; Murphy was struck in the head, her car ran across the southbound lanes and crashed on the shoulder. She was taken to a local hospital and died the next day.

A resident of Chesterfield and a recent Thomas Dale High School graduate with a Medical Assistant Certification, Murphy was remembered by family and friends as funny, goofy, kind, and aspiring to become a nurse. Investigators did not believe the shooting was an act of road rage and treated it as an isolated incident. The case remained unsolved for more than a year, one of dozens of interstate shootings in Virginia in 2023.

Anyone who was on southbound I-85 in Dinwiddie County around 11 a.m. on August 1, 2023, or who saw a 2017 Kia Optima or a vehicle pull alongside it, is asked to come forward with information.