Tyiray Lashawn Anderson, 33, was shot and killed inside a business in the 500 block of 8th Street NW in Roanoke, Virginia, on Sunday evening, January 23, 2022. He died at the scene from a gunshot wound.

While officers were beginning their investigation at that location, a vehicle approached and fired in the direction of police before fleeing; no officers were injured. Investigators identified 21-year-old Eric D. Swain, Jr. as a suspect and say his actions that night escalated into a multi-state crime spree that included another Roanoke-area shooting on Hershberger Road NW that wounded a woman, a convenience-store robbery in Henry County, and a carjacking in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Swain was located and arrested by Greensboro authorities in the early hours of the following day. Roanoke police obtained a warrant charging him with second-degree murder in Anderson’s death; additional charges listed include robbery and using a firearm in the commission of a felony in Henry County. No motive for Anderson’s shooting is provided.

Did anyone in Roanoke or the surrounding communities see activity around 8th Street NW that evening or have information about Anderson’s last movements?