Ulysses K. Williams was 31 when he was shot and killed on the afternoon of May 4, 2022, on the 1200 block of Hanover Avenue NW in Roanoke, Virginia. Officers who arrived at the scene found him in the street with a critical gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead there. Family and friends remembered him as a loving father and son.

Investigators kept the case open through the first anniversary of the killing; the Roanoke Police Department publicly appealed for information but had made no arrests.

If anyone who lived in or near Hanover Avenue NW in May 2022 has information that might help, please share what is known with the Roanoke Police Department.