John Quentin Harris was 43 when he was killed in a shooting at a home in the 800 block of Hershberger Road NW in Roanoke on the afternoon of July 30, 2022. Roanoke Police were dispatched around 1:40 p.m.; Roanoke Fire-EMS found Harris with life-threatening injuries and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Two dogs were also shot—one died at the home and the other was taken to an emergency veterinarian and later died.

Harris was a combat medic who served two tours in Iraq, continued in the National Guard, and later worked in the VA hospital prosthetics department helping disabled veterans. He held a bachelor’s degree in business from Roanoke College and a master’s degree; friends and colleagues remembered him for his kindness and his earlier downtown Roanoke punk style.

Authorities identified and arrested Harris’s younger brother, 40-year-old Lloyd A. Harris, and charged him with second-degree murder; police said the brothers were known to each other and that there was no ongoing threat. The case remains an active homicide investigation.

Did anyone in the Roanoke area know John Quentin Harris or have information about what happened that afternoon?