On August 11, 2021, 19-year-old Taliyah DaShay Carey of Petersburg, Virginia, was shot and killed while a passenger in a parked vehicle in the 12200 block of South Crater Road in Prince George County. Police arrived about 3:36 a.m.; Taliyah was found with a gunshot wound and pronounced dead at the scene.

Taliyah was a 2020 graduate of Thomas Dale High School and active in her church’s Youth Ministry, Youth Choir, and the Exalted Praise Praise Dance Ministry at Big Bethel Baptist Church. In high school she managed the boys basketball team and co-founded the Thomas Dale Step Team; family and friends remembered her for her spirit and laughter.

Later the same day, detectives arrested 28-year-old Dexter Driskell of Hopewell and charged him with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; he was held without bond at Riverside Regional Jail as the investigation continued. If anyone has information about that night, please share what is known with investigators.