A summer afternoon in Petersburg, Virginia, turned tragic on July 2, 2022, when 19-year-old Toni Knight was shot and killed. Known affectionately as Stinka, she had been returning from a grocery store with her young nieces around 12:15 p.m., carrying groceries and planning to cook and do the nieces’ hair when gunfire erupted at the Petersburg Artist Space Lofts on Perry and Brown Streets. Knight was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.

A 12-year-old niece was grazed by a bullet, and two other adults—a man and a woman—were also shot and taken to area hospitals. The shooting drew a large crowd and a multi-jurisdictional police response to secure the area. In the days after the killing, the Petersburg Bureau of Police arrested 19-year-old Delvin Mitchell and charged him with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; detectives continued to investigate whether others were involved.

If anyone has information about what happened near Perry and Brown Streets that afternoon or knew Toni, please share tips with investigators.