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Phillip Duron Adkins, 40, was shot and killed inside the Henrico home he shared with his mother on the evening of January 16, 2020. Henrico County Police responded to a 9:41 p.m. call and found Adkins suffering from gunshot wounds; he died despite medical attention at the scene.

Two days later authorities arrested 23-year-old Deion Lincoln Smallwood of Richmond and charged him with murder. Smallwood told investigators he had acted in self-defense, saying Adkins had come at him with a knife. At trial the jury rejected that claim and convicted Smallwood of voluntary manslaughter and unlawfully shooting within an occupied dwelling.

What details about that night or the people involved might help anyone who knew them come forward with information?