On the night of February 21, 2022, 37-year-old Amaru Amin Shabazz of Leesburg was visiting a townhouse in the 14800 block of Bodley Square in Centreville when an altercation inside the home ended in a fatal shooting. Police arrived about 10 p.m. and found Shabazz inside with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene after Fairfax County Fire and Rescue responded.

Investigators said the shooting was not random. Numerous rounds had been fired, multiple firearms were recovered, and a witness reported seeing a man flee the home after shots were heard. Detectives identified 31-year-old Richard Kenneth Pearson IV of Falls Church as the primary suspect, determined he had been present and had shot Shabazz multiple times, and obtained an arrest warrant on March 3, 2022. Pearson was located and arrested on March 4 and charged with second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony; he was held without bond. Victim specialists were assigned to assist Shabazz’s family.

If anyone has information about the events at the Bodley Square townhouse that night, please share what is known with Fairfax County detectives.