Eighteen-year-old Kebbren Isaiah Leigh-Gaye of Alexandria, Virginia, was shot and killed at a bus stop in the Hybla Valley area of Fairfax County on the evening of January 8, 2022. A recent graduate of Mount Vernon High School and known for his football ability, Leigh-Gaye was involved in a dispute with a 20-year-old acquaintance, Jordan Eugene Cochran, reportedly over a pair of shoes; Cochran shot Leigh-Gaye and the victim was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. This was Fairfax County’s first homicide of the year.

After the shooting, Cochran fled and attempted to carjack a driver in a nearby 7-Eleven parking lot, shooting that driver in the eye and causing non-life-threatening injuries when the driver refused to comply. Law enforcement apprehended Cochran in a Taco Bell parking lot where he had a handgun and personal items belonging to Leigh-Gaye; he was charged with second-degree murder, malicious wounding, robbery, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Reports from the proceedings indicated Cochran admitted on police video to boasting about the shootings.

Leigh-Gaye’s family and community remembered him as kind and passionate with a promising future. Does anyone who knew Kebbren or was in Hybla Valley that night have information that could add clarity to what happened?