Melike Herbert Benjamin was 49 when he was killed in a shooting at a Quik Express gas station on South 15th Avenue in Hopewell, Virginia. The shooting occurred on the evening of July 7, 2021; officers found Benjamin suffering from gunshot wounds near a gas pump and he was pronounced dead at the scene. He was a United States Marine Corps veteran.

Investigators reviewed surveillance footage from the station that showed a person of interest leaving in an early 2000s Chevrolet Tahoe. After images were released, a man from Petersburg voluntarily surrendered to authorities.