Tyrell RayQuan Fields, a 25-year-old Black man and the son of a local pastor in Petersburg, Virginia, was shot on the evening of October 8, 2020. Police responded just before 6 p.m. to the intersection of Seaboard and Church Streets and found Fields lying in the road with gunshot wounds; he was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead.

Investigators identified a suspect and, on October 30, 2020, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force assisted in the arrest of Jaquan Anderson in the 1200 block of Paul Street. Anderson was initially charged with firearm offenses and, in early November 2020, a murder charge was added; he was held without bond. Police continued to ask the public for help with the investigation.

Fields’s father, Pastor Raymond Bradley, has spoken about the family’s unresolved grief and the city’s violence. There has been no conviction reported in Tyrell’s killing as of the last update. If anyone saw or heard anything at Seaboard and Church Streets on October 8, 2020, please come forward with information.