A verbal road rage dispute on August 26, 2022, in Newport News, Virginia, ended in the fatal shooting of 51-year-old Crystal Mittelstadter. The argument began near City Center Boulevard and Warwick Boulevard and continued into the Food Lion parking lot on Oyster Point Road. According to witness accounts and a cell phone video recorded by the passenger in the other car, 22-year-old As-Siddiq Abdul-Aziz of Norfolk exited his vehicle armed, exchanged words with Mittelstadter, and then leaned toward his passenger window and shot her.

Officers found Mittelstadter in the parking lot with a gunshot wound; medics pronounced her dead at the scene. Abdul-Aziz remained and was taken into custody after placing his weapon on the ground. He said he believed Mittelstadter was armed, but no weapon was recovered on her person or in her vehicle. Abdul-Aziz was charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Does anyone have information about the events leading up to the confrontation that day or the people involved?