Nathaniel Allen Trapp, 41, was shot late on the night of November 14, 2021, on Richmond’s Northside in the Washington Park neighborhood. Police responded to reports of gunfire on the 800 block of Cheatwood Avenue and found him wounded; he was taken to a local hospital and did not survive. The Medical Examiner was to determine the official cause and manner of death.

Police asked the public for help and directed tips to Major Crimes Detective M. Young and to Crime Stoppers, but public updates did not identify a suspect, name a person of interest, or describe a motive, and no arrest or charges were announced in the releases. Family members held viewings and a funeral at Scott’s Funeral Home and Scott’s Chapel, and he was buried at Washington Memorial Park. He was remembered by relatives as warm, generous, and quick with humor, survived by his wife LaSharnda Trapp, children NaQuon Trapp and Jermia Mathews, a granddaughter, his mother Beatrice Trapp, paternal grandmother Florine Gaines, siblings and other relatives.

Did anyone on Cheatwood Avenue or in Washington Park that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?