The discovery of 17-year-old Tamel Durant’s body in Richmond, Virginia, shocked the Fairfield Court neighborhood in autumn 2022. Police found him fatally shot inside a residential trash can left at the curb on the afternoon of October 19, having been killed hours earlier. Durant was a senior at Armstrong High School who had moved from New York in 2020 to live with his father; family and friends remembered him as a good, harmless young man who enjoyed basketball and came from a happy home.

Richmond police and the United States Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force investigated the case; on November 1, 2022, they arrested a 17-year-old male and charged him with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Authorities also indicated they believed two other teenagers might have been involved. Vigils were held as the community mourned and called for an end to youth violence.

If anyone knew Tamel, saw him in Fairfield Court around October 19, 2022, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.