On the afternoon of April 14, 2022, Larether Tanika Latrice Patterson, 37, was fatally shot on Circle Drive in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Police arrived after calls of a shooting just before 3:30 p.m. and found two female victims; emergency responders pronounced Patterson dead at the scene and the other woman was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital with injuries.

Witnesses reported seeing Patterson’s 61-year-old ex-husband, Timothy Walton, flee in a brown or gold-colored car shortly after the shooting. Walton was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; court documents described a domestic dispute between the two as the catalyst for the incident. Patterson, born October 23, 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, was a mother and grandmother who worked as a caregiver.

If anyone has information about the shooting or the events on Circle Drive that afternoon, please share what is known.