Daniel Ny’Sheyr Wharton, 19, was shot on the evening of December 5, 2021, while visiting a friend at the University Apartments at Ettrick, an off-campus complex in Petersburg, Virginia. First responders found him with gunshot wounds just before 8 p.m.; he was taken to a local hospital and died of his injuries. A sophomore in Computer Engineering at Virginia State University and a graduate of Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, he was remembered as a loving son and a devoted father to two young sons, Rome and Yasir, and as a student who maintained Honor Roll standing.

Chesterfield County Police and Virginia State University Police investigated the homicide and described it as an isolated incident. A 21-year-old Virginia State student, Isaac Amisa, turned himself in and was arrested on charges of murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; he was being held without bond. The motive remained unclear and the family said they did not know why he was killed.

Did anyone who knew Daniel or who was in the Ettrick area that night see or hear anything that could help explain what happened?