On Monday afternoon, November 9, 2020, 27-year-old Rico A. Turner of Bedford, Virginia, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Lakeside Shopping Center in Salem at about 1:55 p.m. The shooting happened during a custody exchange; Turner was with his fiancée and her three children when he was confronted by Zane Chandler Christian, 25, the fiancée’s estranged husband from Christiansburg.

Witnesses said the confrontation escalated from a verbal argument to a physical altercation and that Turner pushed Christian. Christian then produced a handgun and shot Turner multiple times. Turner was alive when police arrived and identified Christian before being taken to a local hospital, where he later died. The shooting occurred in the presence of Turner's fiancée and the three young children, and authorities charged Christian with additional counts related to child neglect. Christian fled the scene and was later captured following a multi-state search.

If anyone witnessed the exchange at the Lakeside Shopping Center or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.