In the early morning of May 9, 2021, Roanoke police responded to a report of a person with a gunshot wound outside a business in the 4300 block of Williamson Road NE. Officers found 40-year-old Alvin Isa Kasey lying in the parking lot and he was rushed to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Kasey died of his injuries the next day, May 10, 2021, and the Roanoke Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

A funeral service for Kasey was held May 19, 2021, at Garden of Prayer No. 7 Vision of Faith Worship Center in Roanoke. If anyone has information about the shooting outside the Williamson Road business that night, please contact the investigators handling the case.